WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/62688758

Michael tolliver lives

Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, lives on in this novel about growing older joyfully. Almost twenty years after ending his saga of San Francisco life, author Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the 55-year-old gardener tell his own story. 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. This book 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. This stand-alone novel is accessible to new readers, while fans of Tales of the City will find a reassuring number of familiar faces.

Open All Close All

type

about

http://schema.org/about

author

contributor

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • "Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, lives on in this novel about growing older joyfully. Almost twenty years after ending his saga of San Francisco life, author Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the 55-year-old gardener tell his own story. 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. This book 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. This stand-alone novel is accessible to new readers, while fans of Tales of the City will find a reassuring number of familiar faces."@en
  • "Nearly two decades after ending his groundbreaking 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."@en
  • "Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, lives on in this novel about growing older joyfully. Almost twenty years after ending his saga of San Francisco life, author Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the 55-year-old gardener tell his own story. 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. This book 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. This stand-alone novel is accessible to new readers, while fans of Tales of the City will find a reassuring number of familiar faces.--From publisher description."@en
  • "Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, lives on in this novel about growing older joyfully. Almost twenty years after ending his saga of San Francisco life, author Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the 55-year-old gardener tell his own story. 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. This book 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. This stand-alone novel is accessible to new readers, while fans of Tales of the City will find a reassuring number of familiar faces.--From publisher description."
  • "Reaching his mid-fifties in San Francisco, gay gardener Michael Tolliver cherishes his life after losing many of his friends and lovers to AIDS, finds romance with a younger partner, and attends to his dying fundamentalist mother in Florida."@en
  • "Nearly two decades after ending his groundbreaking 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."
  • "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. This novel is about the act of growing older joyfully and the everyday miracles that somehow make that possible."@en
  • "Vingt ans après Les chroniques de San Francisco, Michael Tolliver a rencontré Ben, l'amour de sa vie. Mais sa famille se refuse toujours à accepter son homosexualité. Lorsque la mère de Michael tombe malade, c'est pourtant lui qu'elle appelle à ses côtés en Floride. A San Francisco, Anna Madrigal, sa mère spirituelle, est dans le coma. Il se retrouve partagé entre les deux femmes."

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Modern fiction"@en
  • "Gay fiction"
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "LGBT"@en
  • "Humorous stories"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Lesbian & Gay"@en

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "Michael tolliver lives"@en
  • "Michael Tolliver lebt : die neuesten Stadtgeschichten : Roman"
  • "Michael Tolliver Lives"
  • "Michael Tolliver lives : a novel"
  • "Michael Tolliver lives"
  • "Michael Tolliver lives"@en
  • "Michael Tolliver lives ... <dt.&gt"
  • "Michael Tolliver lives [a novel]"@en
  • "Michael Tolliver"
  • "Michael Tolliver lebt : die neuesten Stadtgeschichten"
  • "Michael Tolliver est vivant"
  • "Michael Tolliver lebt die neuesten Stadtgeschichten"

workExample

http://schema.org/workExample