Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin is $1.99 at Amazon US. It's a classic, telling stories from a different time when San Fransisco was a different city. I had trouble getting into the stories because of the format (they were originally written in short snippets for publication in the San Fransisco Chronicle). Worth reading for a throw back to when macramé was popular and San Fransisco was the center of the gay universe.
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For almost four decades Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City has 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 nine novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live.
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