Maybe the moon a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9780061450884 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
- ISBN: 006145088X (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
- ISBN: 9780061450907 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
- ISBN: 0061450901 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: Pymble, NSW ; New York : HarperCollins e-books, 2007.
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General Note: | Title from eBook information screen. |
System Details Note: | Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 961 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 240 KB). |
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Subject: | Dwarfs -- Fiction Entertainers -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction |
Genre: | Didactic fiction. Electronic books. |
Electronic resources
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 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. 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.