Michael Tolliver Lives [SEP] series
Michael Tolliver Lives
Michael Tolliver Lives (2007) is the seventh book in the "Tales of the City" series by San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin.
Plot summary.
The novel represents Maupin's return to the "Tales of the City" characters some 18 years after the sixth book in the series was published. As well as further developing familiar characters, it explores the differences between the San Francisco of the 1980s, bearing the brunt of the developing AIDS crisis, and the city in the first decade of
a tacked-on bit of resolution in a narrative universe that has always thrived on an open-ended edge of possibility."
Philip Hensher of "The Observer" said, ""Michael Tolliver Lives" is a sad spectacle; the sight of a novelist who remembers that he used to be lovable and trying to remember how he did it ... The charm of the series was always one of escape; in this sad and unappealingly thin book, what we discover is that the pleasures of Arcadia are pretty much like