Tales of the City

Tales of the City is a series of six books, originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle, written by San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin. Tales of the City is also the title of the first book in that series.

Core Characters

The series opens with the arrival of Mary Ann Singleton, a naive young woman from Cleveland Ohio. She finds an apartment at 28 Barbary Lane, the domain of the mysterious marijuana growing landlady Anna Madrigal and becomes friends with the other tenants of the building; the hippyish bisexual Mona Ramsay, straight lothario Brian Hawkins, the sinister and cagey roof tenant Norman Neal Williams, and the lovelorn Michael Tolliver, a sweet and personable gay man known to friends a Mouse (as in Mickey Mouse) who becomes central to the series. Beyond the house, lovers and friends guide Mary Ann through her San Franciscan adventures. Mona's ex-lover D'Orothea Wilson, returns from a modelling assignment in New York, while Michael's lover and DeDe's gynaecologist Jon Fielding graduates into the social circle. Edgar Halcyon, Mary Ann and Mona's boss, his socialite daughter DeDe Halycon-Day and her scheming bisexual husband Beauchamp Day provide a glimpse into a more afflunet Californian class, while Mrs Madrigal's mother and owner of the Blue Moon Lodge brothel, Mother Mucca brings mystery and comic relief.

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