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Maybe the Moon
Maybe the Moon | Armistead Maupin
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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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AnneCecilie
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About Cady, her roommate Renee and her best friend Jeff.

Cady was a huge success as Mr Woods in the movie with the same name, but is finding out that getting a new big job In Hollywood isn‘t easy when you‘re 80 cm.

Written in 1992 the AIDS epidemic is lurking in the background.

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CarolynM
Maybe the Moon | Armistead Maupin
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Eggs Gorgeous 💜💜💜 5y
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Tex2Flo
Maybe the Moon | Armistead Maupin
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#riotgrams Day 3, 3-word titles

KarenUK Nice stack... some good ones there.... 💕 7y
Saknicole Nice collection without the "thes" haha 7y
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