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The acclaimed best-seller by the author of Significant Other, Babycakes, and Sure of You follows the experiences of Anna Madrigal, doyenne of 28 Barbary Lane. Book 1 of 9 in the Tales of the City Series.
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Classical in form, warm, character-led and cool.
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- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Armistead Maupin
- First published
- September 1998
- Pages
- 374
- Publisher
- Corgi, HarperPerennial, Black swan
- Editions
- 45
- Language
- Japanese, Italian, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780552993845
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“MARY ANN SINGLETON WAS TWENTY-FIVE YEARS old when she saw San Francisco for the first time.”
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