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Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2022 ReLit AwardA 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
Trade ReviewBrilliant. An important addition to Two-Spirited literature. * Tomson Highway *
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. * Scott Thompson, Canadian television actor and comedian *
Sky Gilbert’s new novel I, Gloria Grahame, is my favourite novel of the year... The satire is sharp and salty.
* May Gay Toronto *
