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Michael Tolliver Lives LP
Michael Tolliver Lives LP | Armistead Maupin
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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 novelaccessible to fans of Tales of the City and new readers alikea 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 storyfrom 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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Blueberry
Michael Tolliver Lives | Armistead Maupin
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3.5 ⭐ I love all the characters in this series. Well...almost all. There is that one woman...

#FlowerShop #StorySettings

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 😍 6mo
Eggs Gorgeous 🌺🌸🌼 6mo
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Brooke_H
Michael Tolliver Lives | Armistead Maupin
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I've been avoiding the last few books in this series because I really disliked #5-6. But I enjoyed this one quite a bit. Although I have a hard time relating to Michael himself, I did relate to some of the situations he found himself in. And I must admit, it was nice to catch up with the Barbary Lane crew. It's been a long time.

CarolynM ❤️ 2y
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Blueberry
Michael Tolliver Lives | Armistead Maupin
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1. Clanlands
Whisper
A Gentleman in Moscow
2. Softcover
3. Michael Tolliver Lives

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@rachelsbrittain #weekendreads

EvieBee How are you liking A Gentleman in Moscow? It was one of my top reads last year. 4y
Blueberry @EvieBee I am rereading it for my f2f (now zoom) bookclub. I chose it for them because it is so good and thought a lot of people would like it. 4y
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Blueberry
Michael Tolliver Lives | Armistead Maupin
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Just finished. #7 in the series. Good as the rest 😀

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CarolynM ❤️ 4y
Blueberry @CarolynM have you read them all? 4y
CarolynM Yes I have. Love them. 4y
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GidgetsTreasures75
Michael Tolliver Lives | Armistead Maupin
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2-11-21: My 16th finished book of 2021! Unofficially book 7 in the Tales of the City series. This one is told through the point of view of one of the series most beloved characters, Michael, Mouse, Tolliver. It‘s over 20 years since the last story and Michael is now in his 50s and San Fran in 2005 is a very different place. It‘s a lovely story about family, both biological and chosen, and being in love while growing older. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍🏼📖#️⃣1️⃣6️⃣

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azulaco
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How did I not know there were three more books in the Tales of the City series? I guess I missed them because they came out way, way after the others, which I read in the ‘90s. I finished this one yesterday, and the characters are still delightful. This is #7; moving on shortly to #8 and #9. Now I want to go back and read-read the whole series from the beginning. Which I can totally do at my leisure, because they are all on Scribd! 😀

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PagesOfKate
Michael Tolliver Lives | Armistead Maupin
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An older, somewhat wiser Michael Toliver returns once more in the spiritual succesor to Tales of The City #ohnonotyouagain
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love this pic!!! 💛🌼 7y
monalyisha So pretty! 7y
monalyisha Also, these books look great! 7y
emilyhaldi 😍 7y
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Octoberwoman
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I loved the first 5 Tales of the City books but the 6th was a disappointment. I did not like the person Mary Ann became after being a local celebrity went to her head. By the end of the book I quite actively disliked her. But this 7th book, set 20 years later, was just as enthralling as the first 5 books. I zipped through it in a day and a half, giving up some sleep to do so, something I don't have the energy for very often. But it was that good.