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050 00 $aPS3563.A878$bM38 1992
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100 1 $aMaupin, Armistead.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78012070
245 10 $aMaybe the moon :$ba novel /$cArmistead Maupin.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarperCollins,$c©1992.
300 $a307 p. ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
590 $aRare Book copy: Inscribed to Paul [R. Palmer].
520 $aMaybe 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.
520 8 $aAll 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.
520 8 $aNow, 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.
520 8 $aIn 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.
520 8 $aHer 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.
650 0 $aDwarfs (Persons)$vFiction.
650 0 $aEntertainers$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$vFiction.
651 0 $aHollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115351
655 7 $aDidactic fiction.$2gsafd
752 $aUnited States$bNew York (State).$2naf
852 00 $brbx$hPS3563.A878$iM38 1992