'A consummate entertainer... It is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly' - Edmund White, The Times Literary Supplement
San Francisco, 1976.
A naive young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests.
The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, touching, and outrageous - unmistakably the handwork of Armistead Maupin.
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 9780552998765
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 189 g
Dimensions: 198 x 127 x 17 mm
A consummate entertainer... It is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly - Edmund White, The Times Literary Supplement
Maupin is a richly gifted comic author - Observer
San Francisco is fortunate in having a chronicler as witty and likeable as Armistead Maupin - Independent
Like those of Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Armistead Maupin's novels have all appeared originally as serials... it is the strength of this approach, with its fantastic adventures and astonishingly contrived coincidences, that makes these novels charming and compelling - Literary Review
I read this first years ago & just went on to the next one & the next & so on. I loved them all but glad I read them in order. The characters are beautifully drawn & unforgettable. So I recommended the... More
Mary Ann Singleton has came from Cleveland to San Francisco, it is 1976. She is an innocent young secretary and she is bored, she wants to catch up with her old friend and see what life is like on the other side. She... More
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