- Fiction, Lesbians, City and town life, Fiction, gay
Interlinking tales based around the lives of a San Francisco household.
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Character-led, warm, effortless and classical in form.
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- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Armistead Maupin
- First published
- June 4, 1997
- Pages
- 340
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Transworld, Harper Perennial
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- French, Spanish, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780788702198
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“THE VALENTINE WAS A HANDMADE PASTICHE OF VICTOrian cherubs, pressed flowers and red glitter.”
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