The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupins bestselling San Francisco saga, and inspiration for the Netflix original series, Tales of the City

A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh. . . . It is Maupins Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly.Edmund White,Times Literary Supplement

For almost four decades Armistead Maupins Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culturefrom a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of ten novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live.