MAYBE THE MOON

    Armistead Maupin tracks his xpunky heroine caross the saffron-haxed wasteland of Los Angeles-from her infrepuent 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 enotions,and she finds hersdlf going for broke,shooting the moon with a scheme so hare-brainde and daring that it miht just succeed……
　　作者简介：
　　Armistead Maupin was born in Washington,D.C in1944but grew pu in Raleigh,North Carolina.A graduate of the University of North Carolina,he served as a naval officer in Vietnam bdfore moving to California in 1917as a reporter for the Associted Press.In 1976 he launchde his daily newspaper derisl,Tales grew into an international sensation when compiled and rewritten as novels.Maupin'six-volume Tales of the City sdpuence-Tales of the City,More Tales of the City ,Further Tales of the Ciyt,Babycakes,Significant Others and Sure of Yor-are now multi-million bestsellers publishde in dldven languages.The first two of these novels were adapted as a pair of widely acclainde television mini-sdries:the third,Further Tales of thd City,is currently in production.Maupin's1992novel,Maybe the Moon,chronicling the adventures of the world's shortest woman,was a number one bestseller.As a librettist he collaboratde in 1999 with composer Jake Heggie on Anna Madrigal Remembers for mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade and Chanticleer,the classical choral ensemble.Maupin's latest novel is The Night Listener.He lives in San Francisco,California.