Significant Others (34 page)
The Independent (London)
“A portrait of the devastating effects of the AIDS epidemic that achieves an intimacy that could scarcely be duplicated in any other format. While this hardly sounds like material for romantic comedy—miraculously, it is.”
Publishers Weekly
“Maupin’s ear for dialogue is as acute as his feeling for characterization, and the net result is as engaging a read as you are likely to encounter in many moons.”
The Times
(London)
“Like those of Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Armistead Maupin’s novels have all appeared originally as serials. It is the strength of this approach, with its fantastic adventures and astonishingly contrived coincidences, that makes these novels charming and compelling. Everything is explained and everything tied up and nothing is lost by reading them individually. There is no need even to read them chronologically.”
Literary Review
NOTE TO THE READER
The Bohemian Grove is a real place whose rituals I have compressed, though not substantially altered, to suit the time frame of this tale.
Wimminwood is a fictitious entity based on the actual practices of women’s music festivals in Michigan, California, Georgia and elsewhere.
I am indebted to my friends in both camps.
A.M.
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This work was published in somewhat different form in the
San Francisco Examiner.
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS.
Copyright © 1987 by Armistead Maupin.
Illustrations copyright © 1987 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
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First
PERENNIAL LIBRARY
edition published 1987. Reissued 1989.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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