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Michael Tolliver Lives (Tales of the City #7)

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Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, is arguably the most beloved gay character in fiction. 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.

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Jul 09, 2007 Casey rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: adults

I read the series when I was way too young, and it basically blew my mind. Picture it: I was this little Catholic school girl reading about cock rings. COCK RINGS, people. You can imagine the educational experience this was. I credit Maupin's stories with giving me an open mind about all kinds of different lifestyles. And an open mind is not a common thing in my little Mayberry town.

But I guess I grew up, and sex is no longer this forbidden thing. Michael Tolliver Lives doesn't have anything new...more

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Sep 05, 2008 Faith rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-queer-fiction

From an interview Maupin did with Lambda Book Report, I know he shares my dislike for "post-gay" books. True to his preference for gay authors who write gay books, this novel has hot gay male sex; characters reflecting on how their relationships with parents, each other, etc. are affected by their sexual orientation; and a little boy who's probably "pre-gay." The book revisits all the Tales of the City characters we love (Maupin is being coy to claim it isn't part of the TOTC series) and is as e...more

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Sep 02, 2007 Mary rated it 2 of 5 stars

I was at the library the other day and picked this up from the new books shelf on a whim. Reading it totally reminded me why I stopped reading the Tales of the City books after Babycakes. As much as I love the original ones, it seems like Armistead Maupin is the West Coast's equivalent of Candice Bushnell. Or maybe Sarah Jessica Parker. I say that because in the case of SatC, it actually started out being funny and thoughtful and ended up becoming a big ego-fest for the central star/character. A...more I was at the library the other day and picked this up from the new books shelf on a whim. Reading it totally reminded me why I stopped reading the Tales of the City books after Babycakes. As much as I love the original ones, it seems like Armistead Maupin is the West Coast's equivalent of Candice Bushnell. Or maybe Sarah Jessica Parker. I say that because in the case of SatC, it actually started out being funny and thoughtful and ended up becoming a big ego-fest for the central star/character. As SJP's stock as a "fashionista" and "tastemaker" (I'm using quotes because I think she's got pretty questionable taste) rose, the focus of the stories became more centered on her supposedly adorable character and how everybody else thought she was so great. Barf. It's kind of the same way with TofC- it progressively became more about the supposedly adorable Mouse, rather than the relationships between the characters.

It also seemed with both narratives, the non-autobiographical characters who were interesting and funny and could potentially upstage the author's stand-in either got punished or relegated to the sidelines. Maupin seems to have a habit of either killing off the funniest, most colorful chracters (RIP Beecham Day and Mona Ramsey) or turning them into somebody who doesn't resemble the original character at all. Laura Linney gets thanked in the credits for this book, so maybe that's why he decides to bring back Mary Ann Singleton from banishment. He also creates a younger character who's an homage to Michelle Tea and supposedly a comment on how things have changed since then. Good lord is she an annoying cliche (of course he has to mention that she wears a Betty Page haircut) and sounds less like a sexual provacateur and more like your average student at Mills College. There's a coda at the end about her appearing on the Daily Show that was funny simply because it was so ridiculous - no way would somebody like that end up getting interviewed by Jon Stewart.

Anyhow, I guess reading this book reminded me of how annoyed I was by how the series turned out after the initial three books (and characters) that really meant a lot to me.(less)

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Feb 25, 2013 Pamela rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I got this as a free eBook several years ago. My interest in the book was due to the location, San Francisco. It is one is a series (Tales of the City), which I’m sure is why it was free. I was somewhat surprised by this book, definitely outside my range of a typical read. I’m not quite sure why I did read the whole thing. The protagonist was a gay man, and the subject, well, his gay friends. Although I have not read a book about gay men before, that in itself wasn’t shocking to me, but the book...more

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Jan 21, 2013 Alline rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

As a San Francisco Bay Area native, the Tales of the City books are like a slice of home, and of my adolescence, a wild carnival ride of everything that was happening the Bay Area in that chunk of time. While "Michael Tolliver Lives" feels somewhat less-fulfilling than the other books, with a lot more sex and a lot less action, it also reflects the characters' aging. Life at 60 is a lot different than it was at 20. Unfortunately, it still feels a bit like Mr. Maupin has phoned in the pages, or w...more

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May 25, 2012 Sidney rated it 5 of 5 stars

Since this is my personal favorite of all the "Tales of the City" books, it really pisses me off to read all the negative reviews this one has gotten, mainly from peeps who were expecting yet another episodes in the "Tales" saga. Armistead Maupin confounds those expectations by totally going off format: it is narrated first person by Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, and so is a much more simpler and personal narrative than the other books. This is not meant to be a sprawling multi-story narrative, it's...more

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Sep 16, 2011 Kaje Harper rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites, m-m

I always liked Mouse (Michael) in the Tales books and was so glad to find him here, thriving despite his HIV positive status. This book could be read alone, I believe, although the events of the past books certainly enrich it. This is a much more personal and intimate book than the Tales, written in the first person. It follows only Michael and not the full cast of characters, although many of them appear during the course of the book. I really enjoyed both Michael's narrative voice and the plot...more

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May 17, 2011 Ashley rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: peaked-my-interest, nook, own-a-copy, lgbt

This was a book which Barnes and Noble was offering as a free ebook download for a brief amount of time. After reading the synopsis, I decided to give it a chance. Having never read the "Tales of the City" series by Maupin, I was intrigued to see what "Michael Tolliver Lives" would be like and to discover a new writer.

"Michael Tolliver Lives" tells the story of San Franciscan Michael Tolliver who has managed to settle into married life with his younger husband, all while living with AIDS. The re...more

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Nov 07, 2010 Stacey rated it 4 of 5 stars

I read the first Tales of the City when I was taking an intro anthropology course at EMU. It was an assignment, believe it or not, and it was awesome. (this is also the class responsible for me reading Harry Potter, when I previously wouldn't touch them.) I ran to go and get the rest of the books, and read them all. At the time, The Night Listener had just come out, and I read it, too, though I was a bit thrown by how it was so different from the Barbary Lane books.

Last year, Michael Tolliver Li...more

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Jun 03, 2009 Brandon Meredith rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Dear Mr. Maupin,

I want to thank you for your book "Michael Tolliver Lives." It's helped me understand a bit more the journey that lay ahead for me. You see, I'm a 28 year old gay guy. I've lived through some halcyon days of hedonism and beauty. These things may seem shallow, but as your character Mouse understands, there's a lot of depth in that kind of shallowness for a nice Southern boy from a religious family.

This last half of my 20's, though, has greeted me with an unrelenting thickening of...more

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Feb 26, 2010 Sarah rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

My best friend and I read the Tales of the City series back in 8th and 9th grade (early '90s) and the books were just the perfect mix of shocking and charming for a pair of small-town Midwestern girls who considered ourselves a notch more sophisticated and open-minded than our peers. I remember giggling over how much we loved "Mouse," aka Michael Tolliver, who appears once again, in this 20-years-later follow-up to the Tales of the City chronicles.

Though in parts it reads as nothing more than a...more

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Jan 22, 2010 Discoverylover added it

Shelves: books-read-2010, a-good-read, non-bookcrossing, man-author

After reading Tales of the City a couple of times (I had trouble remembering who the characters were the first time!) I decided it was ok, but not the best thing I've ever read. But I was still curious as to what happened to the characters, so when I saw that the people I'm housesitting for had a copy of this book I snatched it up and vowed to read it before leaving. I'm so glad I did - I enjoyed this a LOT more than I was expecting - I really enjoyed reading more about Michael in his own voice....more

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Jun 23, 2009 Florian rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Revisiting the tenants of Barbary Lane more than 18 years after the last book in the series really was a nice trip down memory lane. And I am glad that I just re-read the previous books in the past months to freshen up my memory. "Michael Tolliver lives" certainly is a sequel to the Tales of the City books - and is it not. Maupin not just changed the narrative perspective and style, he also focuses on Michael - certainly the most likeable character of the original series and maybe the only chara...more

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Feb 04, 2011 Alex rated it 4 of 5 stars

I know that an exclamation mark would be hyperbolic, but I think that, after an 18 year absence, "Michael Tolliver Lives!" is an appropriate title. Abandoned by his author in 1989, Michael Tolliver has been up to a lot in his absence. This wasn't originally going to be a Tales of the city book, but Maupin realised that Michael Tolliver was the perfect vehicle for an ageing gay man.

This explains why it's written in the first person, and how everything seems to grow organically from that original...more

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Nov 23, 2010 Sean Kennedy rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was so excited when I heard that TOTC would be continuing, and maybe anything would be disappointing living up to such a huge cultish reputation - but there is no denying that this book is. Michael Tolliver has basically morphed into a not-so-cunningly-disguised version of Maupin himself - and the character suffers for it. Once again, characters are killed off page, and we see more interesting characters sacrificed for more bland replacements. Plus, not wanting to sound prudish, but there's a...more

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Sep 22, 2012 Marco rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: english, fiction, lgbt

Armistead Maupin wrote this book 20 years after completing the last book of the classic "Tales of the city" series, and, as the different color of the cover suggests, it stands apart on its own. While the settings and the characters are the same ones we felt in love with, a quarter of a century is passed, and things changed a lot in all those years. Anna Madrigal is now in her 80s, Michael Mouse Tolliver in his 60s. Some of the characters are deceased, and Shanna is now an adult. The different (...more

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Sep 09, 2012 Esme rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Michael Tolliver lebt. Er ist seit zwanzig Jahren HIV positiv. Und es geht ihm gut. Mehr als siebzehn Jahre nach dem letzten Band der legendären Stadtgeschichten entschloß sich Armistead Maupin zu einer Fortsetzung. Und dieses Buch erweist sich als eine mit gemischten Gefühlen verbundene Leseerfahrung.

Michael Tolliver lives lag schon mehrere Jahre lang bei mir auf Halde. Ich wollte vorher immer die ersten sechs Bände der Reihe noch einmal lesen. Doch einige besondere Leseerlebnisse lassen sich n...more Michael Tolliver lebt. Er ist seit zwanzig Jahren HIV positiv. Und es geht ihm gut. Mehr als siebzehn Jahre nach dem letzten Band der legendären Stadtgeschichten entschloß sich Armistead Maupin zu einer Fortsetzung. Und dieses Buch erweist sich als eine mit gemischten Gefühlen verbundene Leseerfahrung.

Michael Tolliver lives lag schon mehrere Jahre lang bei mir auf Halde. Ich wollte vorher immer die ersten sechs Bände der Reihe noch einmal lesen. Doch einige besondere Leseerlebnisse lassen sich nicht wiederholen, wohl aber konservieren. So habe ich ohne Präliminarien mit diesem Buch begonnen. Und das war in diesem Fall die richtige Entscheidung.

Der siebente Teil der Tales of the City ist anders als seine Vorgänger. Michael "Mouse" Tolliver bestreitet fast die gesamte Handlung allein. Außerdem ist er der Ich-Erzähler, und das gab es vorher auch nicht. Die anderen aus der Barbary-Familie sind nur noch Nebenfiguren.

Es ist ja wirklich schön, diesen liebenswerten Menschen nach so langer Zeit wieder zu begegnen, aber doch nicht unbedingt in so vielen intimen Details (Cock Rings, Blowjobs, Dreier). Manche Türen können ruhig geschlossen bleiben. Dabei hat man den Eindruck, als würde Armistead Maupin auch über sich selbst schreiben. Diesen Roman widmet er seinem 25 Jahre jüngeren Ehemann Christopher Turner.

Homo- und Transsexualität sind nichts Neues in seinen Büchern. Sex im Alter, die Liebe zwischen Partnern mit einem großen Altersunterschied werden thematisiert und die gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse im gegenwärtigen Amerika bissig kommentiert.

Es ist wunderbar zu sehen, wie es Anna Madrigal, Brian Hawkins und sogar Mary Ann Singleton in der Zwischenzeit ergangen ist, auch wenn sie nicht so präsent sind. Das finde ich schade. Sie wohnen schon lange nicht mehr zusammen in der Barbary Lane 28. San Francisco hat sich verändert, die Familie hat sich verändert. Jeder hat sein eigenes Leben und doch sind sie immer noch miteinander verbunden.

Das Originelle an den Stadtgeschichten war immer ihr ganz eigener Rhythmus, ein wirkliches Lebensgefühl vermitteln zu können, Menschen, San Francisco und eine besondere Zeit lebendig werden zu lassen.

If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there
(Scott McKenzie, RIP)

Bei Michael Tolliver lives vermisse ich diesen Soundtrack oder mit anderen Worten: "There is no fifth destination."(less)

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Dec 30, 2010 Emily rated it 3 of 5 stars

Many years ago I watched and enjoyed the television series based on Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City", but I hadn't actually read any of his writing until I picked up this book. It centers around the same characters but is set many years after "Tales of the City" ended, and picks up the story of Michael Tolliver ("Mouse"). If you're completely unfamiliar with the previous work I wouldn't recommend starting with this book, but I remembered enough to understand and enjoy seeing the loose ends...more

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Dec 21, 2010 Penni Russon rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: audible

Michael Tolliver has long been a favourite character of mine, and although it was a little hard to come to terms with the changed landscape in Michael Tolliver Lives (Mrs Madrigal no longer living in Barbary Lane! Heartbreaking...) this was ultimately an upbeat novel about resilience and identity, about the relationship between youth and age. There is a nostalgic longing here, that adds to the poignancy of aging Michael, but there is also a celebration of youth and youth culture (past and presen...more

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Sep 07, 2010 Elizabeth (Miss Eliza) rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, san_francisco

Review to come... but, wtf is up with the books description, this doesn't take place in the span of a day!

Michael Tolliver has survived. Almost 20 years since he found out he was HIV Positive, he has outlived many who thought they would be burying him. Thack is long gone, but now he has the much younger Ben, who loves Michael not just for his "daddy" status, but for who he is. Anna is still around, though the house on Barbary Lane has been sold. Brian still runs the nursery, having bought Michae...more Review to come... but, wtf is up with the books description, this doesn't take place in the span of a day!

Michael Tolliver has survived. Almost 20 years since he found out he was HIV Positive, he has outlived many who thought they would be burying him. Thack is long gone, but now he has the much younger Ben, who loves Michael not just for his "daddy" status, but for who he is. Anna is still around, though the house on Barbary Lane has been sold. Brian still runs the nursery, having bought Michael out when he decided to do free lance gardening and landscaping. No one has much contact with Mary Ann since her desertion, but her daughter is working in media in the spirit of her mother, though as a sex blogger, versus a television host. These people are Michael's "logical" family, compared to his "biological" family back in Florida which is preparing itself for the death of the matriarch. A strange thing is happening to Michael, in a time when he didn't think he'd see tomorrow, he is now watching those he loves die. From Mona to his mother, the grief others would bear for him is now his own. But with the grief there is a joy. The joy of each day, the joy in finding Ben, the joy in finding some sort of acceptance from his mother, the joy in reconnecting with his brother. When you live in a world where once all was lost, finding these little joys, and sometimes the bigger joys of a threesome, mean everything.

Taking a drastic break from the style of the previous novels in the Tales of the City series, here we don't get vignettes on the characters lives, but we follow Michael in a first person narrative and learn about what has happened to the characters through his revelations and reminiscences. While I applaud Maupin for taking such a risk in diverging from his set tone, I don't think it really works. The reason the Tales of the City books captured me was their humorous take on life flitting from one character to the other and how they all somehow were intertwined in the greater scheme of things. Through triumph and tragedy, we followed that motley crew. Now we have a kind of, this is your life, where Michael goes, "hey, remember Mona, she's dead." It's like little call outs to the past with terse summaries and no development. Instead we find ourselves in a world of aging gay men, where Michael has lucked out and got himself a young'un, but they're perfectly willing to have a very graphic three way. The Mouse of the past, who was scared of the disease he carried, seems now cavalier about sex because apparently everyone assumes everyone is positive. This just seemed a little too tawdry to me, and considering the level it takes to make me squeamish, yeah, this wasn't really expected. But every once in awhile there was a glimpse of the pervious books. With Anna picking out a cat at animal control, because the humane society animals seemed to have it too good. Or in my favorite part, Michael's GPS system which he's named Carlotta, after the mad Carlotta in Vertigo. This being because one time, for no particular reason she said "There is no fifth destination." This non sequitur has now become a phrase of choice in the Tolliver household, and this phrase gives me hope for the next book, Mary Ann in Autumn... because as much as some aspects of this book annoyed me, I need to know what happens to these beloved characters.
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Apr 03, 2011 Kathleen rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Almost thirty years ago, in a time in my life naive about the devastating effects of AIDS, I discovered the “Tales of the City” series. Vibrant characters, sometimes edgy, most pushing existing boundaries, created a close, supportive community on 28 Barbary Lane. I devoured each book as it was published, drawn to the characters and then learned about the disease that would rob us of a generation of artists.
I hadn’t thought about these books for years until discovering “Michael Tolliver Lives” at...more

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Apr 23, 2013 Gregory Whitfield rated it 4 of 5 stars

I was lucky enough to be living in the San Francisco Bay Area when the original book was serialized in the SF Chronicle. Everyone was reading it and talking about it! It was a media phenomenon.

I somehow missed this book and I'm delighted it finally popped up. Armistad Maupin is a master story teller; no wonder he was perfect at serializing a book when the need for cliff-hangers was ever present.

I loved catching up with the cast of characters, now in late middle age. I guess Michael Tolliver and...more

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May 27, 2012 Alain added it · review of another edition

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Ce livre est sans aucun int?r?t. J?avais d?j? lu un des livres de la s?rie des Chroniques de San Francisco et j?avais le souvenir d?un auteur l?ger, ironique et croquant bien ses personnages. Mais l?, rien de cela. Le r?cit est une suite de souvenirs du personnage principal, Michael Tolliver, entrecoup?es de ses nombreuses histoires de qu?quettes.

Je m?attendais, apr?s avoir lu le r?sum? de la quatri?me de couverture, ? une certaine r?flexion de Michael Tolliver au moment o? il allait devoir cho...more

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Mar 31, 2012 Florinda rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I first read the Tales of the City series back around 1990-91; I took all six books in fairly close succession, and I absolutely loved them. For most of the 1990's, I would re-read them all every year or two; they're all pretty fast reads, and it was like a reunion with old friends every time.

Maupin's original six books center on the occupants of a San Francisco apartment house located at 28 Barbary Lane, and follow them and the people they're connected to through ten years, various relationship...more I first read the Tales of the City series back around 1990-91; I took all six books in fairly close succession, and I absolutely loved them. For most of the 1990's, I would re-read them all every year or two; they're all pretty fast reads, and it was like a reunion with old friends every time.

Maupin's original six books center on the occupants of a San Francisco apartment house located at 28 Barbary Lane, and follow them and the people they're connected to through ten years, various relationships, career changes, relocations, successes, failures, and health crises. The stories were first created as a serial for the San Francisco Chronicle in the mid-1970's, and the Tales books always had a sense of that beginning; chapters would rotate among the featured characters, and there were certainly some wacky plot elements (a cannibal cult in Grace Cathedral? the possibly faked death of Jim Jones?), but the characters were always deeply human and very real, and the writing was sharp and funny. The books were also my first real exposure to gay culture, and have long influenced my understanding and sympathies toward it.

There was every reason to assume that Sure of You (1990) was the last appearance for the Barbary Lane folks; Mary Ann had left Brian for the sake of her career, and Michael's AIDS was a certain death sentence - it was just a question of time. Well, as it turns out, it's been quite a long time - almost twenty years, and due to verious medical advances, Michael Tollliver still lives. He's got a nice - and much younger - husband, too.

This time around, the story is nearly all Michael's, and for the first time, Maupin uses first-person narration. And I don't even remember any previous mention of Michael's brother back in Florida, but his biological family is a big part of the story this time. While nearly all the old favorites make appearances, or are at least discussed at some point, the shift in focus makes this book feel different. However, Michael's voice is similar enough to his creator's that the story very quickly felt familiar, in the best possible way. Maupin's writing is a bit more graphic than it was in the earlier books, and more particularly gay in the details, but since he's emphasizing Michael this time (and it's 18 years later), it's all fitting - and it's still just as full of humor and humanity.

I think I would have liked the book more if it had been a bit more balanced and told from more than one perspective - that is, more like the original Tales - but I still enjoyed it.(less)

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May 18, 2010 Linda rated it 4 of 5 stars

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The seventh book in the Tales of the City series was a long time in coming. This was a gentler book than the last one. The book focuses on the story through the eyes of Michael, now 55. Anna, Brian and Mary Ann all make their appearances and Mona gets mentioned though she has died prior tot he book's start. We also meet some new characters, Michael's husband, Ben, 21 years his junior. We meet Jake, Michael's part-time employee.

Though this lacks the whacky, endearing craziness of the first few bo...more

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Feb 25, 2013 Kerry Muzzey rated it 5 of 5 stars

I read the original TOTC series & fell in love with it. These books made me want to move to San Francisco and find my own 28 Barbary Lane, my own little family of misfits. The various TV adaptations of the books cemented these characters in my head, and that's why to me they will forever be trapped in a late-70's time warp. But we all get older, and I think that's what's so poignant and beautiful and moving about this particular book: Mouse didn't die. He lived. And now he's 55 years old, an...more

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Jun 07, 2012 Jessica rated it 4 of 5 stars

I really liked this, which is rare for a Free Friday's book. Usually they're just ok. But I liked the "slice of life" storytelling. I did not know going into it that this was part of a larger series; if I'd read some of the other books I might have been a little fed up with the repetition and introducing characters and trips to the dept of back story. As it was, I thought it was really interesting, like reading how people talk and tell stories- starting with an overall story and then explaining...more

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Aug 03, 2009 Tyler rated it 4 of 5 stars

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I read the entire Tales of the City series in the mid-nineties, and thoroughly enjoyed them (even toward the end when the plots got crazy). I inherited this book from a friend who died recently, or I wouldn't have even known it existed.

What a delight to find out that Michael Tolliver is still alive, and enjoying his life in San Francisco. At every turn of a page, I ran into another old friend from the Tales of the City, or learned the sad news of someone's passing. I probably wouldn't recommend...more

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Oct 05, 2012 Joanne hale rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another fabulous read.

20 years later, Michael, and Ben, Brian and Brian's daughter Shawna, along with Mrs Madrigal, along with a wonderful cast of other characters pull this book through the ups and downs of modern america. The other novels set in the 70s and 80s, this one pulls from 2000s. referencing many things that happened, like enron, bush and other mishaps.

Pulled through their story of love, life and reality.

Once again, another page turner, that is more heart wrenching then the last.

I can...more

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Dec 06, 2010 Trashpalace rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Pur non essendo un vero e proprio seguito delle Tales of the City, questo romanzo ha come protagonista Michael Tolliver, che torna per narrare in prima persona la sua vita di ultracinquantenne sieropositivo in una San Francisco dei giorni nostri.
Mouse adesso è sposato con un uomo di vent'anni più giovane e continua a dover affrontare il difficile rapporto con una famiglia che non ha mai saputo accettare (ma solo tollerare) la sua omosessualità.
È un romanzo molto nostalgico e in cui fanno capoli...more

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