Michael Tolliver Lives: A Novel
by: Armistead Maupin
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060761356
ISBN: 0060761350
Label: HarperCollins
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: June 12, 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Sales Rank: 236618
Studio: HarperCollins
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Product Description:
Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, is arguably one of the most widely loved characters in contem-porary fiction. Now, almost twenty years after ending his ground-breaking saga of San Francisco life, Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the fifty-five-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.
Though this is a stand-alone novel—accessible to fans of Tales of the City and new readers alike—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.
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- Michael Tolliver lives.While I enjoyed reading the Barbary Street stories, and was happy to see this book had been written, ... Read More
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- Michael toliver Lives, Armistead MaupinI read this book last summer. I have loved all the other books, this one is not funny, too graphic , ... Read More
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- Wish I had Loved it ...but I didn't. Thers is a whole kind of yucky feeling here with Miichael's current relationship that sort ... Read More
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- Alive and Kicking!Michael Tolliver is (as the title rather clearly suggests) alive and kicking. Those who thought they would ... Read More
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- Really wanted to like itI loved the first six "Tales" books, though perhaps less so as the series went on. I think it bottomed out ... Read More
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