Author: ARMISTEAD MAUPIN
Title: Michael Tolliver Lives. Tales of the City Sequence
Description: Paperback. Pp: 277. 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.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 Maupin insists that this book is not, strictly speaking, a continuation of Tales of the City, 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 art of growing older joyfully and the everyday miracles that somehow make that possible.Praise for Armistead Maupin and the Tales of the City series.'An enormously talented writer-witty but always sympathetic, generous in showing us the secrets of his heart. By writing about what's seemingly different Armistead Maupin always manages to capture what's so hilariously and painfully true for all of us.' AMY TAN'A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh. It is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly.' EDMUND WHITE'I love Maupin's books for very much the same qualities that make me love the novels of Dickens.' CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD'Wise, witty, loving and caring about the foibles and frailties we all seem to have.' DAVID HOCKNEY. ISBN: 9780385612418. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780385612418
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Title: Michael Tolliver Lives. Tales of the City Sequence
Description: Paperback. Pp: 277. 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.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 Maupin insists that this book is not, strictly speaking, a continuation of Tales of the City, 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 art of growing older joyfully and the everyday miracles that somehow make that possible.Praise for Armistead Maupin and the Tales of the City series.'An enormously talented writer-witty but always sympathetic, generous in showing us the secrets of his heart. By writing about what's seemingly different Armistead Maupin always manages to capture what's so hilariously and painfully true for all of us.' AMY TAN'A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh. It is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly.' EDMUND WHITE'I love Maupin's books for very much the same qualities that make me love the novels of Dickens.' CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD'Wise, witty, loving and caring about the foibles and frailties we all seem to have.' DAVID HOCKNEY. ISBN: 9780385612418. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780385612418
Price: EUR 9.50 = appr. US$ 10.33 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 103094
- Book number: 103094
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