Significant Others
  • Published: 6 October 2000
  • ISBN: 9780552998802
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $22.99

Significant Others

Tales of the City 5

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The fifth volume in the acclaimed Tales of the City series.

The fifth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.

‘Some of the sharpest and most speakable dialogue you are ever likely to read’ Guardian
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Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick nurseryman, a panic-stricken philanderer, and the world’s most beautiful fat woman. Significant Others is Armistead Maupin’s cunningly observed meditation on marriage, friendship and sexual nostalgia.

Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in 1980s San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.
  • Published: 6 October 2000
  • ISBN: 9780552998802
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin is the author of Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Significant Others, Sure of You, Maybe the Moon, The Night Listener, Michael Tolliver Lives and Mary Ann in Autumn. Three television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney were made from the first three Tales novels. The Night Listener became a feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. Maupin lives in San Francisco with his husband, Christopher Turner.

For more information on Armistead Maupin and his books, see his website at www.armisteadmaupin.com

portrait photo of Armistead Maupin

Also by Armistead Maupin

Mona of the Manor
Logical Family
The Days of Anna Madrigal
Mary Ann in Autumn
Michael Tolliver Lives
The Night Listener
Maybe The Moon
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Praise for Significant Others

A consummate entertainer... It is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly

The Times Literary Supplement

San Francisco is fortunate in having a chronicler as witty and likeable as Armistead Maupin

Independent

Like those of Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Armistead Maupin's novels have all appeared originally as serials... it is the strength of this approach, with its fantastic adventures and astonishingly contrived coincidences, that makes these novels charming and compelling

Literary Review

Maupin is a richly gifted comic author... there is room in Armistead Maupin's universe for all of us

Observer

Comedy in its most classical form... some of the sharpest and most speakable dialogue you are ever likely to read

Jonathan Coe, Guardian

Wise, witty, loving and caring about the foibles and frailties we all seem to have

David Hockney