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Shortlisted for the 2022 ReLit Award
A professor of English literature writes the autobiography of his fantasy alter-ego, wanton movie star Gloria Grahame, while his own sexual desires go frustrated.
Denton Moulton — a shy, effeminate male professor — lives inside his head, where he is really a long-dead movie star: the glamorous Gloria Grahame, from the golden age of Hollywood. Professor Moulton is desperate to reveal Gloria’s shocking secret before he dies. Does he have the right to tell this woman’s story? Who, in fact, has the right to tell anyone’s story at all?
A scandalous, humorous novel of taboo desires and repression, I, Gloria Grahame alternates between Gloria’s imagined life with her film-director husband, Nicholas Ray, director of Rebel Without a Cause, and Denton’s increasingly frustrated real-life attempts to produce his own work of art: an all-male drag production of Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis. The novel takes us from high-strung film sets to dark bars and the puritanical offices of government arts granting agencies, where Denton runs up against the sternest warnings that he may not, in fact, imagine himself as someone else, even in art.
A RARE MACHINES BOOK
A professor of English literature writes the autobiography of his fantasy alter-ego, wanton movie star Gloria Grahame, while his own sexual desires go frustrated.
Denton Moulton — a shy, effeminate male professor — lives inside his head, where he is really a long-dead movie star: the glamorous Gloria Grahame, from the golden age of Hollywood. Professor Moulton is desperate to reveal Gloria’s shocking secret before he dies. Does he have the right to tell this woman’s story? Who, in fact, has the right to tell anyone’s story at all?
A scandalous, humorous novel of taboo desires and repression, I, Gloria Grahame alternates between Gloria’s imagined life with her film-director husband, Nicholas Ray, director of Rebel Without a Cause, and Denton’s increasingly frustrated real-life attempts to produce his own work of art: an all-male drag production of Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis. The novel takes us from high-strung film sets to dark bars and the puritanical offices of government arts granting agencies, where Denton runs up against the sternest warnings that he may not, in fact, imagine himself as someone else, even in art.
A RARE MACHINES BOOK
Price: $18.99
Pages: 200
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Imprint: Rare Machines
Publication Date:
02 November 2021
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781459748286
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay, Biographical fiction, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Own Voices, FICTION / Alternative History, Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Brilliant. An important addition to Two-Spirited literature.
I, Gloria Grahame is that rarest of literary things, a sharp satire of these tremulous times that actually makes one laugh. It's brave, it's shocking, it's compelling, and best of all, it's not too long. It's De Profundis for the beach.
I, Gloria Grahame is that rarest of literary things, a sharp satire of these tremulous times that actually makes one laugh. It's brave, it's shocking, it's compelling, and best of all, it's not too long. It's De Profundis for the beach.
Sky Gilbert’s new novel I, Gloria Grahame, is my favourite novel of the year... The satire is sharp and salty.
Sky Gilbert is a writer, director, and drag queen extraordinaire. He was the founder of Toronto’s Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, has had more than forty plays produced, and published seven novels and three poetry collections. Toronto has even named a street after him. Sky lives in Hamilton, Ontario.