Michael Tolliver Lives (Tales of the City) Book

Michael Tolliver the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic "Tales of the City" series is arguably the most beloved gay character in fiction. Now almost twenty years after ending his groundbreaking saga of San Francisco life Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero letting the 55-year-old gardener tell his story in his own voice. Having survived the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers Michael has learned to embrace the random pleasures of life the tender alliances that sustain him in the hardest of times "Michael Tolliver Lives" follows its protagonist as he finds love with a younger man attends to his dying fundamentalist mother in Florida and finally reaffirms his allegiance to a wise octogenarian who was once his landlady.While Maupin insists that this book is not strictly speaking a continuation of "Tales of the City" a reassuring number of familiar faces appear along the way. As usual the author's mordant wit and ear for pitch-perfect dialogue serve every aspect of the story - from the bawdy to the bittersweet."Michael Tolliver Lives" is a novel about the act of growing older joyfully and the everyday miracles that somehow make that possible.

The seventh novel in the belovedTales of the Cityseries, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.'Tender-hearted and frolicsome… A tale of long-lost friends and unrealised dreams, of fear and regret, of penance and redemption, and of the unshakeable sense that this world we love, this life we live, this drama on which we all play, does indeed go by much too fast’ New York Times____________________Nearly two decades after ending his iconic Tales of the City saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero Michael Tolliver—the fifty-five-year-old sweet-spirited gardener and survivor of the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers—for a single day at once mundane and extraordinary... and filled with the everyday miracles of living.Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in a sexually-liberated San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.