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Maybe the Moon: A Novel
by Armistead Maupin
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060165529
- ISBN 13
- 9780060165529
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
*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".,,,,,,, Hard cover book in very good condition. Dark gray covered boards with black cloth wrapped spine and gold titling are in very good condition but there is slight fading at the upper edges of front board. Endpapers area light gray color cut from heavy stock but are starting to fade at the edges. Deckle edged pages are very good, clean, unmarked. Dust jacket is good with minor use wear. A nice copy of this Stated First Edition...... Maybe the Moon: A Novel, Wilensky-Ritzenhein Gay Book Collection, Author Armistead Maupin, Publisher Harper Collins, 1992, Book design by C. Linda Dingler, Jacket design and illustrations by Honi Werner, Author photograph by David Perry, ISBN 0060165529, 9780060165529, 307 pages, Fiction General. .LAX Vespa, Los Angeles - maybe this will do it!-At least you know what you're getting into -Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it - in - transit....... vg Armistead 5221HCRoseWB2
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5221
- Title
- Maybe the Moon: A Novel
- Author
- Armistead Maupin
- Illustrator
- Book design by C. Linda Dingler, Jacket design and illustrations by Honi Werner, Author photograph by David Perry
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Stated First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060165529
- ISBN 13
- 9780060165529
- Publisher
- Harpercollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Size
- about 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 x 1 1.4 ub
- Keywords
- Maybe the Moon: A Novel, Wilensky-Ritzenhein Gay Book Collection, Author Armistead Maupin, Publisher Harper Collins, 1992, Book design by C. Linda Dingler, Jacket design and illustrations by Honi Werner, Author photograph by David Perry, ISBN 0060165529,
- Bookseller catalogs
- fiction literary; ROSEWB2;
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