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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Shy, effeminate Professor Denton Moulton lives in his head, and in his head he is really a long-dead movie star -- the glamorous Gloria Grahame, from the golden age of Hollywood. His own sex life is nonexistent and he feels he hardly has a right to exist, let alone to tell anyone else's stories. But Gloria's sex life is scandalous.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>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.</b><br/><br/>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?<br/><br/>A scandalous, humorous novel of taboo desires and repression, <i>I, Gloria Grahame</i> alternates between Gloria's imagined life with her film-director husband, Nicholas Ray, director of <i>Rebel Without a Cause</i>, and Denton's increasingly frustrated real-life attempts to produce his own work of art: an all-male drag production of Shakespeare's <i>Venus and Adonis</i>. 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.<br/><br/>A RARE MACHINES BOOK<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Sky Gilbert's new novel <em>I, Gloria Grahame</em>, is my favourite novel of the year... The satire is sharp and salty.</p>-- "May Gay Toronto"<br><br><i>I, Gloria Grahame</i> 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 <i>De Profundis</i> for the beach.-- "Scott Thompson, Canadian television actor and comedian"<br><br>Brilliant. An important addition to Two-Spirited literature.-- "Tomson Highway"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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.

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