Further Tales of the City (novel)

This article is about the 1982 Armistead Maupin novel. For the TV adaptation, see Further Tales of the City (miniseries). For the entire series of novels, see Tales of the City.

Further Tales of the City

US first edition cover
Author	Armistead Maupin
Audio read by	Frances McDormand
Language	English
Series	Tales of the City
Genre	Novel
Published	1982
Publisher	Harper & Row
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	239
ISBN	978-0-060-90916-1
Preceded by	More Tales of the City
Followed by	Babycakes

Further Tales of the City (1982) is the third book in the Tales of the City series by San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin, originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle . ^[1] It was adapted into the 2001 miniseries Further Tales of the City .

This novel takes place in 1981 during the first year of the Reagan Administration and imagines that the real-life figure of Jim Jones survives the Jonestown massacre. The book also captures the tail end of the post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS era of decadence in the gay culture of the early 1980s as the Michael Tolliver character explores his promiscuous side after breaking up with Jon Fielding.

References

1. "Further Tales of the City". culturevulture.net. January 1998. Retrieved May 26, 2020.