| Description |
1 online resource (320 pages) |
| Access |
Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
Maybe the Moon, Armistead Maupin's first novel since ending his bestselling Tales of the City series, is the audaciously original chronicle of Cadence Roth -- Hollywood actress, singer, iconoclast and former Guiness Book record holder as the world's shortest woman. All of 31 inches tall, Cady is a true survivor in a town where -- as she says -- "you can die of encouragement." Her early starring role as a lovable elf in an immensely popular American film proved a major disappointment, since moviegoers never saw the face behind the stifling rubber suit she was required to wear. Now, after a decade of hollow promises from the Industry, she is reduced to performing at birthday parties and bat mitzvahs as she waits for the miracle that will finally make her a star. In a series of mordantly funny journal entries, Maupin tracks his spunky heroine across the saffron-hazed wasteland of Los Angeles -- from her all-too-infrequent meetings with agents and studio moguls to her regular harrowing encounters with small children, large dogs and human ignorance. Then one day a lanky piano player saunters into Cady's life, unleashing heady new emotions, and she finds herself going for broke, shooting the moon with a scheme so harebrained and daring that it just might succeed. Her accomplice in the venture is her best friend, Jeff, a gay waiter who sees Cady's struggle for visibility as a natural extension of his own war against the Hollywood Closet. As clear-eyed as it is charming, Maybe the Moon is a modern parable about the mythology of the movies and the toll it exacts from it participants on both sides of the screen. It is a work that speaks to the resilience of the human spirit from a perspective rarely found in literature. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
FICTION / General.
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Entertainers -- California -- Hollywood (Los Angeles) -- Fiction.
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Dwarfs (Persons) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Didactic fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Maupin, Armistead. Maybe the moon. New York : HarperCollins, c1992. 0060165529 : (DLC)92052596 |
| Standard No. |
9780061844270 |
| ISBN |
9780061844270 (e-pub) |
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