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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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Book Description Hardcover. Second Printing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. ; Thirty-two inches tall, the acid-tongued actress Cadence Roth survives in Hollywood doing 'infomercials' and B-grade horror flicks. ; 303 pages. Seller Inventory # 66428
Book Description Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine -. First Edition. From the author of "Tales from the City" comes the story of a 31-inch high firecracker named Cady. After a once immensely popular appearance as an elf in a Hollywood blockbuster, Cady now finds herself relegated to appearing at children's birthday parties and bah mitzvahs. A modern parable about the myhtology of the movies and the toll it exacts from its participants on both sides of the screen. Dj has small rumple at top of spine. Seller Inventory # 000523
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