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Tales of the City
| Title | Tales of the City |
| Names | Maupin, Armistead. |
| Book Number | DB039531 |
| Title Status | Active |
| Medium | Digital Books |
| Download Link | Downloadable talking book. |
| Annotation | Set in San Francisco in the 1970s, these "tales" were first published as a daily column in the Chronicle. Fresh from Cleveland, Mary Ann Singleton gets a quick initiation into California lifestyle when she takes a room at 28 Barbary Lane, a bohemian boarding house run by Anna Madrigal, who welcomes new tenants with a home-grown reefer. Strong language and descriptions of sex. |
| General Notes | This work was published in somewhat different form in the San Francisco Chronicle. |
| Narrator | Hagen, Ray. |
| Length | 8 hours, 28 minutes |
| Local Subject | Male narrator - MN |
| Adult book - AD | |
| Strong language - ST | |
| Sexually explicit - SE | |
| Literary fiction - FI7 | |
| Short stories - SS | |
| LGBTQIA+ - LGB | |
| Satire - HU3 | |
| Fiction - FI | |
| Humor - HU | |
| LC Subject | City and town life - California - San Francisco - Fiction |
| San Francisco (Calif.) - Fiction |
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| Humor |
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| Audience Notes | A NLS/BPH |
| Contains strong language. NLS/BPH |
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| Male narrator. NLS/BPH |
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| Call Number | 813.54 AFI |
| Language | English |
| Released | 1978 |
| Publication Info | Washington, D.C. : 1978 HarperPerennial, 1994 |
| Original Publication | Recorded from: 1st HarperPerennial ed. New York : HarperPerennial, 1994, c1978. 0060906545 |
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