Babycakes

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Babycakes is a novel in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series that continues the intertwined lives of a group of San Francisco residents with a focus on themes of love, loss, and the emerging AIDS crisis.

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Babycakes canonical 9

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
author Armistead Maupin
countryOfOrigin United States
followedBy Significant Others
follows Further Tales of the City
genre LGBT literature
fiction
serial fiction
hasMediaType book
print
hasTargetAudience adult readers
language English
literaryPeriod late 20th-century American literature
mainCharacter Brian Hawkins
DeDe Halcyon-Day
Mary Ann Singleton
Michael Tolliver
Mrs. Madrigal
narrativeForm interconnected stories
notableFor early depiction of the AIDS crisis in popular fiction
partOfSeries Tales of the City
publicationYear 1984
publisher Harper & Row
seriesNumber fourth book in the Tales of the City series
setInFictionalUniverse 28 Barbary Lane universe
settingLocation New York City
San Francisco
settingTimePeriod early 1980s
theme AIDS crisis
LGBT community
friendship
loss
love

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Tales of the City hasPart Babycakes
Michael Tolliver appearsIn Babycakes
Armistead Maupin notableWork Babycakes
Michael Tolliver appearsIn Babycakes
Anna Madrigal appearsInWork Babycakes
28 Barbary Lane settingOf Babycakes
Further Tales of the City followedBy Babycakes
Mary Ann Singleton appearsIn Babycakes