Maybe the Moon Paperback - 1993
by Armistead Maupin
The bestselling author of the Tales of the City series presents a hilarious romp behind the scenes of tinseltown with a lovable 31" dwarf, who schemes to break out of her dwarf image and prove to Hollywood and the world that her singing talents and acting abilities are star quality.
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"Maybe the Moon" 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.
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- Title Maybe the Moon
- Author Armistead Maupin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Date 1993-08-04
- ISBN 9780060924348 / 0060924349
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 5.29 x 0.8 in (20.35 x 13.44 x 2.03 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Southern California
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Locality: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
- Sex & Gender: Gay
- Sex & Gender: Lesbian
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Lgbt
- Library of Congress subjects Didactic fiction, Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92052596
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Publishers Weekly, 07/05/1993, Page 0
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