{"product_id":"maybe-the-moon-a-novel","title":"Maybe the Moon: A Novel","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMaybe the Moon: A Novel\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eArmistead Maupin\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780060924348\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHarper Perennial\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1993\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e320\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition: \u003c\/b\u003eUsed Copy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\"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. \u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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 humanspirit from a perspective rarely found in literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Maybe the Moon: A Novel | Armistead Maupin | Paperback | 9780060924348 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1607462","offer_id":48316244918424,"sku":"1607462","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71dbo0p7mML.jpg?v=1773169761","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/maybe-the-moon-a-novel","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}