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By ELSA DIXLER
Published: July 13, 2008
MICHAEL TOLLIVER LIVES, by Armistead Maupin. (Harper Perennial, $13.95.) Maupin's "Tales of the City," set in the 1970s and '80s in a Barbary Lane boarding house run by Anna Madrigal, a transsexual, began as a serial in The San Francisco Chronicle, then became novels and a popular PBS miniseries. In 1989, Maupin finished the story. But now he has taken it up again, catching up with many of the familiar characters. He focuses on Mike Tolliver, surprised to be alive and living with AIDS at 55, running a landscaping business and recently married to a handsome young man.