num_pages: 322
description: 8 hrs and 37 mins The fifth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga, soon to return to television as a Netflix original series once again starring Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis.Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick nurseryman, a panic-stricken philanderer, and the world’s most beautiful fat woman. Significant Others is Armistead Maupin’s cunningly observed meditation on marriage, friendship, and sexual nostalgia.
language: English
title: Significant Others
titlecomplete: Significant Others (Tales of the City, #5)
characters: Michael Tolliver, DeDe Halcyon Day, Booter Manigault, Thack Sweeney, Brian Hawkins
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Queer, LGBT, Gay Fiction, Humor, Novels, Contemporary, Gay
ratings_count: 9008
places: California, San Francisco, California
series: Tales of the City
publisher: Harper Perennial