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Buch
Originaltitel
Originalsprache
Englisch (Amerikanisch)
Erstveröffentlichung
1984
Band (Reihe)
Typ
Buch
Genre
Belletristik: Roman
Auflage
Sprache
Englisch (Amerikanisch)
Verlag
Jahr
2024
Seitenanzahl
304
ISBN
1804994286
EAN
9781804994283
Ausgabe
Taschenbuch
Auflage
3
Inhalt/Klappentext

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 neighbour, 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.

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 1970s San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.