The seventh novel in the beloved Tales of the City series Armistead Maupin's best-selling San
Francisco saga.'Tender-hearted and frolicsome... A tale of long-lost friends and unrealised
dreams of fear and regret of penance and redemption and of the unshakeable sense that this
world we love this life we live this drama on which we all play does indeed go by much too
fast' New York Times____________________ Nearly two decades after ending his iconic 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. Hurdling barriers both social and sexual Maupin
leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph through nail-biting
terrors and gleeful coincidences in a sexually-liberated San Francisco. The result is a
glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of
readers.
