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Michael Tolliver Lives
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Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City

The seventh novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga.

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.

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Armistead Maupin. (2009). Michael Tolliver Lives. HarperCollins.

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Armistead Maupin. 2009. Michael Tolliver Lives. HarperCollins.

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Armistead Maupin. Michael Tolliver Lives. HarperCollins, 2009.

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        Maupin's seventh volume in his Tales of the City series arrives 18 years after his supposed final Tales novel, Sure of You
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