At last Armistead Maupin returns to one of his most beloved characters from The Tales of the City series. I don’t know anyone who picked up the first in that series and didn’t immediately have to read all the other ones in quick succession! Although this isn’t the next in that series it is about Michael Tolliver 20 years after we last saw him and there are plenty of characters from the old days to get that warm familiar feeling back. Saying that you don’t have to have read Tales of the City to thoroughly enjoy this book.
The seventh novel in the belovedTales of the Cityseries, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga.
'Tender-hearted and frolicsome… A tale of long-lost friends and unrealised dreams, of fear and regret, of penance and redemption, and of the unshakeable sense that this world we love, this life we live, this drama on which we all play, does indeed go by much too fast' New York Times ____________________
Nearly two decades after ending his iconic Tales of the City saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero Michael Tolliver-the fifty-five-year-old sweet-spirited gardener and survivor of the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers-for a single day at once mundane and extraordinary... and filled with the everyday miracles of living.
Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in a sexually-liberated San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.
