The hugely anticipated novel by Armistead Maupin is out now in paperback. Michael Tolliver lives is the sequel to the widely popular "Tales of the City" series. Now a fifty five year old gardener, Michael brings his experiences in San Francisco to life and having lost friends and family to the Plague, learns to embrace the random pleasures of life.

Armistead Maupin has displayed his genius with his depiction of San Francisco life with his seven book Tales of the City series. With the first of the series being made into a television series, Maupin certainly doesn't let the fans down with the latest release that has brought us one of the most loveable gat characters in fiction.

"The first Tales of the City novel for almost two decades finds Michael "Mouse" Tolliver now fiftysomething with a toyboy husband and a gardening business. Aids and age make him feel like a "lurching, lopsided contraption held together by chewing gum and baling wire", but he's as active as ever, sniping at his fundamentalist family, enjoying a threesome with a stripper and smoking pot with comfortable delight. Around him, Tolliver's distant mother is dying and has a secret to impart while, more worryingly, Anna Madrigal, the transsexual matriarch of Barbary Lane, is growing frail and ill. It all gives Maupin opportunity to set tragedy and hypocrisy alongside each other, marry compassionate wisdom with discussions about cock rings and Viagra, and slip in some gleeful set pieces, including a wonderfully uncomfortable encounter with a pair of preppy gay racists. The novel's soapy happenings won't be to all tastes, but Maupin's warm, gossipy style makes Michael Tolliver Lives an undemanding pleasure." The Guardian

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