About Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin

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 Tolliverthe fifty-five-year-old sweet-spirited gardener and survivor of the plague that took so many of his friends and loversfor 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.