![]() Michael Tolliver Lives is a novel about the act of growing older joyfully and the everyday miracles that somehow make that possible.Įven with moments of contentment and bliss with family, it's not easy to become old, and more awful still to know that if you leave the place you love you can never return. 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. ![]() While Michael Tolliver Lives is a stand alone novel, accessible to old and new readers alike, a reassuring number of familiar faces appear along the way. 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. 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. ![]() 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. 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 contemporary fiction.
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