TY - BOOK AU - Maupin,Armistead TI - Tales of the city Vol. 1 T2 - Tales of the city SN - 9780552998765 (pbk.) U1 - 813.5'4 PY - 1989/// CY - London PB - Black Swan KW - City and town life KW - California KW - San Francisco KW - Fiction KW - LGBT KW - Lesbian KW - Gay N1 - "This work was published in somewhat different form in the San Francisco Chronicle." (S. [4]); 1. published in Great Britain in 1980 by Corgi Books, a division of Transworld Publishers; Auf der Vorderseite des vorderen Buchdeckels: The first volume in the acclaimed series; Black Swan is an imprint of Transworld Publishers, London. - Transworld Publishers is a division of The Random House Group; Mit Porträtfoto auf der Innenseite des vorderen Buchdeckels N2 - San Francisco, 1976. A naive young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, touching, and outrageous - unmistakably the handwork of Armistead Maupin. ER -