<p><b>The second novel in the beloved</b><b><i>Tales of the City</i></b><b>series, Armistead Maupin¿s best-selling San Francisco saga.</b><br><br><b>¿Entertains, illuminates¿ A cultural touchstone that has enlarged our understanding of the varieties of human behavior¿</b><i>Washington Post<br><b>____________________</b></i><br><br>The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cosy nest for adventures far afield. Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with a forgetful stranger, Mona Ramsey discovers her doppelg¿er in a desert whorehouse, and Michael Tolliver bumps into his favourite gynaecologist in a Mexican bar. Meanwhile, their venerable landlady takes the biggest journey of all¿without ever leaving home.<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 1970s San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues t