It's all too complicated to go into detail in a review, but the reader really ends up caring about these people and what happens to them. All the characters are 3 dimensional, each with his or her own failings, strong points, and flukes. The characters are brilliantly drawn by Maupin, and you end up liking almost everyone, even the not very nice ones. The book contains several story lines, all centered on the denizens of 28 Barbary Lane, an old house that now consists of several rental apartments, occupied by young renters, all under the benelovent eye of the landlady, Mrs. Many references to items of the 70's come along in the descriptions and the dialog of this story. As a result, this book is a true depiction of the City in the 1970's. Tales of the City, published as a book in 1976, started out as separate, short articles in a San Francisco newspaper serial.
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