Michael Tolliver Lives
- Author: Armistead Maupin
- Narrator: Armistead Maupin
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 6:41:31
Synopsis
Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, is arguably one of the most widely loved characters in contemporary 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.
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. Michael Tolliver Lives 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.
While Michael Tolliver Lives is a stand alone novel, accessible to old and new readers alike, a reassuring number of familiar faces appear along the way. As usual, the author's mordant wit and ear for pitch-perfect dialogue serve every aspect of the story—from the bawdy to the bittersweet. Michael Tolliver Lives is a novel about the act of growing older joyfully and the everyday miracles that somehow make that possible.
Chapters
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Chapter 001
Duration: 06min -
Chapter 002
Duration: 09min -
Chapter 003
Duration: 10min -
Chapter 004
Duration: 12min -
Chapter 005
Duration: 09min -
Chapter 006
Duration: 07min -
Chapter 007
Duration: 07min -
Chapter 008
Duration: 07min -
Chapter 009
Duration: 08min -
Chapter 010
Duration: 10min -
Chapter 011
Duration: 12min -
Chapter 012
Duration: 12min -
Chapter 013
Duration: 12min -
Chapter 014
Duration: 05min -
Chapter 015
Duration: 10min -
Chapter 016
Duration: 06min -
Chapter 017
Duration: 06min -
Chapter 018
Duration: 07min -
Chapter 019
Duration: 09min -
Chapter 020
Duration: 07min