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Harper Perennial
August 1993
On Sale: August 4, 1993
320 pages
ISBN: 0060924349
EAN: 9780060924348
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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.
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