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I loved this book, utterly and completely. There wasn't a bum note the whole way through. It has gorgeous, evocative prose that is such a pleasure to read, and an engaging plot that keeps it moving along, but mostly it was the most sweet, romantic, wonderful love story. That makes it sound schmaltzy and sentimental and yukky, and it isn't any of those things. It's just the tale of two people who love each other, deep down in their bones, and how they live. Beautiful.
I read it all in one day, which although it isn't very long, is still quite astonishing for me, even given that it was a Sunday and I wasn't at work and my husband was around to field all the 'mummy, mummy, mummy' from my son. I simply couldn't put it down, it was delicious.
I read all the original 'Tales of the City' series back in 1992.( ... )
So I dithered about borrowing Michael Tolliver Lives from the library, and read the other two books I got at the same time in preference. It was really only because I had nothing else left that I finally picked it up, and I'm so very glad I did. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
I remember reading somewhere, or being told, that the Tales of the City are more or less autobiographical and I've just been on the Armistead Maupin website and there are some great pictures of AM and his husband, who is clearly several years his junior, just like Michael and Ben in this book. It's teasing me to know if other things are the same in their marriage - though of course that is nobody's business but their own.
I read it all in one day, which although it isn't very long, is still quite astonishing for me, even given that it was a Sunday and I wasn't at work and my husband was around to field all the 'mummy, mummy, mummy' from my son. I simply couldn't put it down, it was delicious.
I read all the original 'Tales of the City' series back in 1992.( ... )
So I dithered about borrowing Michael Tolliver Lives from the library, and read the other two books I got at the same time in preference. It was really only because I had nothing else left that I finally picked it up, and I'm so very glad I did. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
I remember reading somewhere, or being told, that the Tales of the City are more or less autobiographical and I've just been on the Armistead Maupin website and there are some great pictures of AM and his husband, who is clearly several years his junior, just like Michael and Ben in this book. It's teasing me to know if other things are the same in their marriage - though of course that is nobody's business but their own.
