Significant Others

<p><b>The fifth novel in the beloved</b><b><i>Tales of the City</i></b><b>series, Armistead Maupin¿s best-selling San Francisco saga.<br><br>¿Some of the sharpest and most speakable dialogue you are ever likely to read¿</b><i>Guardian<br><b>____________________</b></i><br><br>Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick nurseryman, a panic-stricken philanderer, and the world¿s most beautiful fat woman.<i> Significant Others</i> is Armistead Maupin¿s cunningly observed meditation on marriage, friendship and sexual nostalgia.<br><br>Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in 1980s San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new gene