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Babycakes by Armistead Maupin [FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK] 1984 • Tales of the City #4

Babycakes by Armistead Maupin [FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK] 1984 • Tales of the City #4

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Babycakes by Armistead Maupin [TALES OF THE CITY #4]

TRADE PAPERBACK [1984] HARPER & ROW • COLOPHON BOOKS

Published simultaneously in both hardcover and softcover first editions.

Oversized square trade paperback in very good condition. 

4th printing. 

Cover shows shelf wear; a few corner creases.

Reads like new with one cropped corner to front endpaper.


ABOUT THE BOOK

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."

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