Tales of the City

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick

The first novel in the belovedTales of the Cityseries, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga, and inspiration for the Netflix original series,Tales of the City

“A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh. . . . It is Maupin’s Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly.”—Edmund White,Times Literary Supplement

For over four decades Armistead Maupin’sTales of the Cityhas blazed its own trail through popular culture—from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of ten novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane,Talesis both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live.