Книга: Maupin, Armistead «Maybe The Moon»

Maybe The Moon

Производитель: "Неизвестный"

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 of Records 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 Bar 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... ISBN:9780552998758

Издательство: "Неизвестный" (2014)

ISBN: 9780552998758

Maupin, Armistead

▪ American author
born May 13, 1944, Washington, D.C., U.S.

      American novelist best known for his Tales of the City series.

      Maupin was reared in North Carolina. He showed an early interest in film and theatre. His adolescent years were complicated by his growing awareness of his homosexuality. Graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1966, Maupin worked for a time under the future senator Jesse Helms at a local TV station, following a conservative bent that he later abandoned. He then joined the U.S. Navy and served first as an ensign, then as a civilian volunteer in Vietnam. He worked as a newspaper reporter in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1970–71, before he was assigned to San Francisco.

      Maupin's career as a fiction writer was launched when his Tales of the City was published as a serial in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1976–77, then as a book in 1978. The story, set in San Francisco, focuses on three characters—Mary Ann Singleton, a naive young woman from Cleveland, Ohio; Michael (“Mouse”) Tolliver, her homosexual friend; and their motherly landlady, Anna Madrigal, a transsexual. The author's compassion for his characters and his lively humorous style made Tales of the City a cult favourite. Five popular sequels followed: More Tales of the City (1980), Further Tales of the City (1982), Babycakes (1984), Significant Others (1987), and Sure of You (1989), all but the last initially serialized in San Francisco newspapers. Characters from the series are also featured in Michael Tolliver Lives (2007), but Maupin denied that the novel was a sequel. Although the tone of the books is generally lighthearted, throughout the series characters confront serious personal and political issues, including loneliness, parenthood, and the loss of a partner to AIDS.

      Maupin broke from the series to write Maybe the Moon (1992), the story of a dwarf actress. The author was the subject of an hour-long British Broadcasting Corporation documentary, Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up (1992); Tales of the City was broadcast on public television in 1993 and 1994 and More Tales of the City was broadcast on cable television in 1997. Through the story of a writer's telephone relationship with a sexually abused adolescent, The Night Listener (2000) meditates on the relationship of men to each other, as fathers and sons, or putative sons, and lovers.

Additional Reading
Patrick Gale, Armistead Maupin (1999).

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Источник: Maupin, Armistead

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