Back to Barbary Lane: "Tales of the City" Books 4-6

By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City novels-the fourth, fifth and sixth of which are collected in this second omnibus volume-stand as an incomparable blend of great storytelling and incisive social commentary on American culture from the seventies through the first two decades of the new millennium.

"Tearing through [the tales] one after the other, as I did, allows instant gratification; it also lets you appreciate how masterfully they're con...