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Significant Others audiobook

  • By: Armistead Maupin
  • Narrator: Cynthia Nixon
  • Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: March 26, 2013
  • Language: English
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Significant Others Audiobook Summary

Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City

The fifth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.

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.

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Significant Others Audiobook Narrator

Cynthia Nixon is the narrator of Significant Others audiobook that was written by Armistead Maupin

Cynthia Nixon has been working professionally in film, television, and onstage since the age of twelve. Her best known role is Miranda on Sex and the City for which she received an Emmy(r) nomination and three consecutive Golden Globe nominations. She lives in New York with her two children: Samantha and Charlie.

About the Author(s) of Significant Others

Armistead Maupin is the author of Significant Others

Significant Others Full Details

Narrator Cynthia Nixon
Length 8 hours 37 minutes
Author Armistead Maupin
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date March 26, 2013
ISBN 9780062259752

Additional info

The publisher of the Significant Others is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062259752.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Melody

December 16, 2013

I thought I'd review these in preparation for the Anna Madrigal book coming out in January 2014. I honestly didn't expect to be catapulted head over heels back to Barbary Lane, back to the late 80s. Some of my intense reaction to this story/timeline must be attributed to my recent reading of the unutterably brilliant Two Boys Kissing, but much of it is down to Maupin's lovely writing. The narration is great, too.

Dennis

September 16, 2021

The Barbary Lane 90210 gang get out of San Francisco and go to camp. A wonderfully witty, warm-hearted and wise distraction from the stylized and serialized Ryan Murphy tv dramas that have also been vying for my attention.

Richard

June 29, 2018

When in search of a lighter read, Armistead Maupin never fails, or at least he hasn't up to now.Not that there aren't serious events taking place in the fifth Tales of the City book. We are now in the era of Aids and it is having repercussions for gay and straight characters.But what I come back to these novels for is the family of familiar characters who I have grown to love and cherish, as well as the wit and humanity of Maupin's writing.Significant Others doesn't disappoint on that score. Maupin dispatches his characters to the Russian River area of San Francisco. D'Orothea and DeDe are going to Wimminwood, a lesbian arts festival - something that will cause significant tensions in their relationship. At the same time Michael and Brian get mixed up in a male bonding camp nearby, as Brian wrestles with a personal crisis.Significant Others may not reach the heights of the early books, but there is still much to enjoy. Not enough Anna Madrigal perhaps, but new character Wren Douglas - a plus-size model - is a treat.

Chris

October 18, 2022

While I still really enjoyed this, it was probably my least favourite of the series so far. Mary-Ann has become very unlikeable and is more or less absent, as is Mrs Madrigal. I enjoyed the new characters we got to meet, but Michael is most certainly the star now and I very much like the way it's going. I'm still looking forward to seeing where we end up in the next book.

LenaRibka

May 07, 2019

Clemens

February 01, 2019

Mit dem fünften Band der Stadtgeschichten-Reihe umfasst der erzählte Zeitraum bereits zehn Jahre. Mit „Am Busen der Natur“ sind wir im Jahre 1986 angekommen. Von der Hippieseligkeit der ersten Bände der ersten Bände sind nur noch homöopathische Spuren vorhanden. Das Lebensgefühl der achtziger Jahre dominiert nun endgültig die gesamte Erzählung. Maupin hat manchen der Figuren ein kompletten Wandel verpasst, so dass es mir zum ersten Mal in dieser Reihe so ging, dass mir eine früher sympathische Figur eher unangenehm geworden ist.Die zwei Erzählungsstränge entfaltet Maupin wieder nur langsam, aber wie schon in den vorangegangenen Bänden nimmt die Handlung immer mehr an Fahrt auf, um in einem überdrehten Finale auszuklingen.Trotz all der überdrehten Wendungen und komischen Szenen liegt über den ganzen Roman eine unabweisliche Melancholie, die sich aus der AIDS-Krise der achtziger Jahre speiste. Maupin zeigt in ungeschönter Weise, wie sich dadurch das Leben in San Francisco für immer veränderte. Der Tod ist somit in diesem Roman immer allgegenwärtig.Und es wird auch deutlich, dass die Reihe auf die Schlussgerade einbiegt. Mal sehen, wie Maupin die Reihe mit dem sechsten Band zu Ende bringt.

Tansy

December 07, 2019

Love portrayed in many forms. It continues to be a joy to follow these characters as they develop and grow.

Ayla

December 19, 2019

Love the “Plant Parenthood” nursery name!

Bill

October 07, 2015

The characters of past "Tales of the City" novels are joined by a few new faces, all strong, distinct characters -- without the implausible background plot of most of the other volumes, which is refreshing! A bit like a Shakespeare homage, various characters end up in the same forest, escaping the outside world in their own enclaves. When the lines blur (because really, what is a border in the wilderness?), especially between the "men only" and "women only" spaces, conflict ensues, but without the tabloid-level tension of some of the past books' hooks.Instead the tension here is between characters -- particularly the strain on relationships that are entering "long-term" territory, but also on friendships where the characters are afraid to admit how much they mean to each other.If there's a weakness here, it's that the book loses focus when talking about the character of Mary Ann. I would have liked to find out more about what's going on with her as she continues to put her drive and ambition ahead of so many of her relationships -- it would have helped me understand where I know her path is going to take her in future books in the series.

Deebles

February 28, 2008

Significant Others - Armistead Maupin.Like usual Maupin left me laughing and reading this book incredibly quickly. It was great to have DeDe as a more prominent character as she has always been in the background (apart from Further Tales, but that was a very specific story). It was also great to see Mouse taking a chance on love. I also thought that AIDS was handled really well. At the time the book was written i was a child and i remember all the TV programmes that tried to raise awareness about AIDS and how it wasn't just a homosexual disease, so it was refreshing to read as an adult. I didn't particularly like the way Mary Ann's character had developed, she was getting very sweept up in the 80's and becoming a snob but at the end of the book i thought all that was changing and she would become loveable again.

Davie

February 17, 2009

A nice, quick read. There isn't much to say, really; this is book five in the Tales of the City series, so you've got to be pretty invested in these characters to make it this far. I enjoyed that this one was set in 1987, a year in which I was both alive and slightly more cognizant of culture and the world, so I was able to understand some of the political and pop culture references.

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