MAYBE THE MOON
- Author: Armistead Maupin
- Narrator: Armistead Maupin
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 5:50:42
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.
Chapters
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Chapter 001
Duration: 08min -
Chapter 002
Duration: 01min -
Chapter 003
Duration: 03min -
Chapter 004
Duration: 01min -
Chapter 005
Duration: 01min -
Chapter 006
Duration: 02min -
Chapter 007
Duration: 02min -
Chapter 008
Duration: 03min -
Chapter 009
Duration: 07min -
Chapter 010
Duration: 04min -
Chapter 011
Duration: 01min -
Chapter 012
Duration: 06min -
Chapter 013
Duration: 04min -
Chapter 014
Duration: 05min -
Chapter 015
Duration: 38s -
Chapter 016
Duration: 01min -
Chapter 017
Duration: 01min -
Chapter 018
Duration: 10min -
Chapter 019
Duration: 21s -
Chapter 020
Duration: 01min