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  • Babycakes

  • Tales of the City, Book 4
  • By: Armistead Maupin
  • Narrated by: Alan Cumming
  • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (80 ratings)

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Babycakes

By: Armistead Maupin
Narrated by: Alan Cumming
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Summary

Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City

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

When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there’s more to making a baby than meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first piece of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.

©1984 The Chronicle Publishing Company (P)2012 HarperCollins Publishers
Contemporary Fiction
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wonderful, absolutely ripping

Loved it. Alan's narration is superb, uncannily like Frances McDormund from previous books. just fab.

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A great book, but...

I love Armistead Maupin and I really like Alan Cumming, but I'm really not convinced on this pairing. Having listened to the other books thus far this one jolts.. It feels like he is trying too hard with the characters.

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