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 of Records 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 wearNow, after a decade of hollow promises from the Industry, she is reduced to performing at birthday parties and Bar 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 ignoranceThen 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 ClosetAs 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.

Format Häftad Omfång 336 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Transworld Publishers Ltd Utgivningsdatum 2000-09-01 ISBN 9780552998758