''Further Tales of the City'' (1982) is the third book in the '' Tales of the City'' series by

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novelist Armistead Maupin, originally serialized in the ''

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''. 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

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. The book also captures the tail end of the post-

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, pre-

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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.

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1982 American novels 1980s LGBT novels Novels by Armistead Maupin Tales of the City Fiction set in 1981 Novels first published in serial form Works originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle Novels set in San Francisco Harper & Row books American novels adapted into television shows Novels set in the 1980s {{1980s-LGBT-novel-stub