2 edition of Tales from a sweltering city found in the catalog.
Tales from a sweltering city
Published
2006
by Glendale Public Library in Glendale, Ariz
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Written in
Edition Notes
| Statement | edited and with an introduction by Frieda Ling ; preface by Rodeane Widom ; foreword by Cheryl Kennedy. |
| Contributions | Ling, Frieda., Glendale Public Library (Glendale, Ariz.) |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PS571.A6 T36 2006 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | xviii, 468 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 468 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL16673084M |
| ISBN 10 | 1933868007 |
| LC Control Number | 2007275700 |
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That's not what Maupin's aiming for. In what is the first and best book in a six-part series constructed from a serial column in the San Francisco Chronicle, Tales of the City is smart, guilty entertainment at its best.4/5(K). Tales from the Inner City is a picture book for adults by award-winning Australian illustrator and author, Shaun Tan.
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Originally published in by American author Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City is the first installment in a nine-book series of the same name published between and The novel takes place in San Francisco inas a young woman named Mary Ann Singleton, seeking a change in her life, moves to the city and resides at 28 Barbary Lane.Shaun Tan is the New York Times bestselling author of The Arrival, Tales from Outer Suburbia, Tales from the Inner City, Rules of Summer, and The Singing received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in and won an Academy Award for the adaptation of his picture book The Lost Thing (from Lost & Found: Three by Shaun Tan).Shaun lives in Melbourne.
