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Book Title: "Michael Tolliver Lives"
Author: Armistead Maupin"
Page Count: 277
First Published: 2007
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah- blergh - goatfood
So this is, so far, the last novel* about the inhabitants of 28 Barbary Lane, though, spoiler, none of them lives there any more. Told from the perspective of only Michael Tolliver, it tells us what happened to the characters almost twenty years after the last installment of "Tales of the City" was published, but it also works well as a stand-alone novel about a gay man who has finally found his place in the world and has to affirm this place by chosing between his biological and, in Maupins words, his "logical" family. But but but by leaving behind the short installments which made "Tales of the City" such a breathtaking read, and by leaving behind all familiar characters but one, and by choosing a rather slow, serious subject matter instead of the hair-raising, soap-opera-esque plots of the older novels, the book just lacks what made the others so rich and entertaining.
* LIE I just found out that another one was published THIS WEEK. What a creepy yet awesome coincidence.
Author: Armistead Maupin"
Page Count: 277
First Published: 2007
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah- blergh - goatfood
So this is, so far, the last novel* about the inhabitants of 28 Barbary Lane, though, spoiler, none of them lives there any more. Told from the perspective of only Michael Tolliver, it tells us what happened to the characters almost twenty years after the last installment of "Tales of the City" was published, but it also works well as a stand-alone novel about a gay man who has finally found his place in the world and has to affirm this place by chosing between his biological and, in Maupins words, his "logical" family. But but but by leaving behind the short installments which made "Tales of the City" such a breathtaking read, and by leaving behind all familiar characters but one, and by choosing a rather slow, serious subject matter instead of the hair-raising, soap-opera-esque plots of the older novels, the book just lacks what made the others so rich and entertaining.
* LIE I just found out that another one was published THIS WEEK. What a creepy yet awesome coincidence.