BABYCAKES - Couverture souple

"An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco."
-- New York Times Book Review

When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby then meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first work of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.

"Armistead is a true original. His tales are bang up-to-date. They will surprise and maybe even shock you, but, I promise, they will make you laugh."
--Ian McKellen

"Maupin has a genius for observation. His characters have the timing of vaudeville comics, flawed by human frailty and fueled by blind hop."
--Denver Post

"Armistead Maupin's San Francisco saga careens beautifully on."
-- New York Times Book Review

'May well be the funniest series of novels currently in progress...Maupin's ear for dialogue is as acute as his feeling for characterization, and the net result is as engaging a read as you are likely to encounter in many moons'

The Times

The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier Tales of the City books with love and laughter are at it again, as an ordinary house-husband and his ambitious wife discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye.Unexpected help arrives in the form of a British monarch, a grieving gay neighbour, and an international ring of mail-order brides.Armistead Maupin has written a comedy of manners for our times.

'I love Maupin's books for very much the same qualities that make me love the novels of Dickens'

Christopher Isherwood

Official Author Website: www.ArmisteadMaupin.com