Goodbye Barbary Lane: ‘Tales of the City’ Books 7-9

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By Armistead Maupin

By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin’s bestsellingTales of the Citynovels—the final three of which are collected in this third omnibus volume—stand as an incomparable blend of great storytelling and incisive social commentary on American culture from the seventies through the first two decades of the new millennium.

The last three novels of Armistead Maupin’s bestselling, critically-acclaimedTales of the Citywere written 18 years after the “final” book in the original series and are now available for the first time as an omnibus edition. The epic series, published between 1978 and 2014, spans the decade before the AIDS crisis through the era of marriage equality following an unforgettable set of characters, whose diverse sexual identities helped set the social stage for the ongoing sexual revolution.

Goodbye Barbary Lane—comprised ofMichael Tolliver Lives(2007),Mary Ann in Autumn(2010), andThe Days of Anna Madrigal(2014)—brings closure to the lives and legacies of the characters through which generations have found connection to America’s larger cultural struggles over the past four decades.

Joining two companion omnibus volumes,28 Barbary LaneandBack to Barbary Lane,Goodbye Barbary Lanepresents all of“Mr. Maupin’s adeptness at fluid dialogue, his flair for shaping characters who thread the needle between pop archetypes and singular human beings, and his great gift for intricate if occasionally preposterous plotting”(New York Times).

Paperback:832 pages

Publisher:Harper Perennial (Dec 2016)

ISBN-13:9780062563774

Product Dimensions:15.2 x 4.2 x 22.9 cm