The Resource Maybe the moon : a novel, Armistead Maupin
Maybe the moon : a novel, Armistead Maupin
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The item Maybe the moon : a novel, Armistead Maupin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- 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 Guinness Book record holder as the world's shortest woman." "All of thirty-one 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 heroin 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 accomplices in this venture are her dithery housemate, Renee, and her best friend Jeff, a gay writer 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 its 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."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Maybe the moon : a novel
- Title
- Maybe the moon
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Armistead Maupin
- Language
- eng
- 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 Guinness Book record holder as the world's shortest woman." "All of thirty-one 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 heroin 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 accomplices in this venture are her dithery housemate, Renee, and her best friend Jeff, a gay writer 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 its 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."--BOOK JACKET
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Maupin, Armistead
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3563.A878
- LC item number
- M38 1992
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Dwarfs
- Entertainers
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Dwarfs
- Entertainers
- California
- California
- Label
- Maybe the moon : a novel, Armistead Maupin
- Control code
- ocm26096578
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 307 p.
- Isbn
- 9780060165529
- Lccn
- 92052596
- Label
- Maybe the moon : a novel, Armistead Maupin
- Control code
- ocm26096578
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 307 p.
- Isbn
- 9780060165529
- Lccn
- 92052596
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