Narrated by Alan Cumming
Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City
The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.
When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there’s more to making a baby than 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 piece of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.
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“Talented actor Alan Cumming delivers a stellar
performance…Fans will welcome the return of the quirky residents of 28 Barbary
Lane, San Francisco, and there is sufficient backstory to offer newcomers an
enjoyable stand-alone novel. Cumming individualizes the numerous personalities
through subtle variations of pacing and intonation without resorting to
stereotypes or losing Maupin’s chatty style. Cumming’s soft Scots burr is
particularly appealing as characters and scenes from the United Kingdom enter
the story. The novel was considered groundbreaking when it was originally
published in 1984 for focusing on the AIDS epidemic. Now, in the twenty-first
century, we see that its themes of love and family are timeless.”
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