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Babycakes

By: Armistead Maupin
Narrated by: Alan Cumming
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Narrated by Alan Cumming

""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.

Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Romance

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Loved it. Alan's narration is superb, uncannily like Frances McDormund from previous books. just fab.

wonderful, absolutely ripping

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I love Armistead Maupin and I really like Alan Cumming, but I'm really not convinced on this pairing. Having listened to the other books thus far this one jolts.. It feels like he is trying too hard with the characters.

A great book, but...

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