For more than three decades Armistead Maupinamp;#39;s Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular cultureamp;#8212;from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of six novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live.
For more than three decades Armistead Maupinamp;#39;s Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular cultureamp;#8212;from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of six novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live.
| BN ID: | 2940173551009 |
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| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Publication date: | 10/16/2021 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
With depressing regularity, some American parent makes headlines by questioning the advisability of teenagers reading classics of the YA canon, and schools ban books like The Catcher In The Rye or The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Shouldn’t we be past this as a society by now? Don’t we all remember that scene in Field of Dreams when Amy Madigan […]
