I, Gloria Grahame
I, Gloria Grahame by Sky Gilbert, published by Dundurn Press on November 2, 2021, is a 200-page work that explores the intertwining lives of a professor and his fantasy alter-ego, the iconic movie star Gloria Grahame. The narrative follows Denton Moulton, a shy and effeminate English literature professor, as he grapples with his unfulfilled sexual desires while attempting to write Gloria’s autobiography. The story raises questions about identity and the ownership of narratives, particularly in the context of a long-dead Hollywood star.
Readers will find a blend of humor and scandal as the novel alternates between Gloria’s imagined experiences with her husband, film director Nicholas Ray, and Denton’s struggles to create an all-male drag production of Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis. The book delves into themes of taboo desires and repression, taking readers from the glamorous yet high-pressure world of film sets to the constraints of government arts agencies. I, Gloria Grahame presents a unique perspective on the complexities of storytelling and self-expression within the LGBTQ+ community.
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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.
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