Tales of the City Tales of the City, Book 1, (Paperback)

from emanate28

Very entertaining reading, esp for anyone who may have nostalgia for the 70s and San Francisco in the 70s in particular. I was a child in the 70s so most of the pop-culture references were beyond me, but the stories were still fascinating and fun to read--probably because Mary Ann is an outsider ...

from clue

First published in 1978, Tales eventually would become a series of 9 books, the first 4 were originally written as part of a newspaper series and the last 5 written as novels. The city is San Francisco and the time the 1970s. When a young woman comes for vacation from Cleveland and decides to st...

from satyridae

Revisited via audio CD. It was lovely to be back on Barbary Lane with the kids, but odd that they are kids now and not too long ago they were glamourous grownups. Sweet and improbable and dated in the nicest sort of way. There's one prescient moment where Brian says to Michael that it's likely th...

from bibliobibuli

I enjoyed this work very much. I hesitate to call it a novel, since it is a string of episodes, a soap-opera for the page, telling the stories of interwoven lives in San Francisco in the 1970's. Maupin is warm and funny and seems genuinely fond of his eccentric cast of characters. I greatly admir...

from VintageReader

I still love it--I've loved it since it was lent to me in 1988--but some of it hasn't aged particularly well. That's okay with me; one of its best qualities is its very firm place in time, and the subsequent books carry that on. But I wonder if new readers will get out of it the same things I do ...