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      Babycakes

      by Armistead Maupin
      Published
      Mar 1984
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      220
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      Tales of the City Book 4

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      "Maupin's San Francisco saga careens beautifully on." —New York Times Book Review

      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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      General Fiction

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      Death / Dying Diversity

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      Jan 1984 Harper & Row ISBN13 9780060910990 ISBN10 0060910992
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      Jan 1989 HarperCollins ISBN13 9780060964078 ISBN10 0060964073
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      First Edition Jan 1984 HarperCollins ISBN13 9780060152628 ISBN10 0060152621
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