Significant Others - Tales of the City 5

The fifth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin s best-selling San Francisco saga.

Some of the sharpest and most speakable dialogue you are ever likely to read Guardian
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Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick nurseryman, a panic-stricken philanderer, and the world s most beautiful fat woman. Significant Others is Armistead Maupin s cunningly observed meditation on marriage, friendship and sexual nostalgia.

Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in 1980s San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.