Michael Tolliver Lives (#7 Tales of the City)

Author(s): Armistead Maupin

Modern & Contemporary Literature | LGBTQI Recommendations

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.


Product Information

The long-awaited new novel in the internationally bestselling Tales of the City sequence

Armistead Maupin is the author of Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Significant Others, Sure of You, Maybe the Moon and The Night Listener. Three television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney were made from the first three Tales novels. The Night Listener became a feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. Maupin lives in San Francisco with his husband, Christopher Turner. For more information on Armistead Maupin and his books, see his website at www.armisteadmaupin.com

General Fields

  • : 9780552772938
  • : Transworld Publishers Limited
  • : Black Swan
  • : 0.23
  • : June 2008
  • : 199mm X 130mm X 23mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Armistead Maupin
  • : Armistead Maupin
  • : Modern fiction
  • : Modern fiction
  • : 336
  • : 336
  • : 813.54
  • : 813.54
  • : English
  • : English
  • : 1
  • : 1
  • : Paperback
  • : Paperback