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Babycakes
- Tales of the City, Book 4
- By: Armistead Maupin
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 246
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 221
When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby then meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first work of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Maupin's 4th "Tales" Book with a Male Narrator
- By Scott on 04-07-13
- Babycakes
- Tales of the City, Book 4
- By: Armistead Maupin
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming
I ordinarily love Alan Cumming, but...
Reviewed: 11-03-16
I've listened to other books narrated by Alan Cumming and loved them, but this one not so much. His British accents in Babycakes are (as you would expect) excellent, but he manages to make every single female character in this book sound extraordinarily shrill. It marred the experience for me.
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