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Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 83975 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Abridged. |
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Duration: 5:50:31. |
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Read by the author. |
| 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 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. |
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Dwarfs -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Entertainers -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Maupin, Armistead.
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| ISBN |
9780061237638 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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0061237639 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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