{"product_id":"i-gloria-grahame-sky-gilbert-9781459748286","title":"I, Gloria Grahame","description":"\u003ci\u003eShortlisted for the 2022 ReLit Award\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA professor of English literature writes the autobiography of his fantasy alter-ego, wanton movie star Gloria Grahame, while his own sexual desires go frustrated.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDenton 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA scandalous, humorous novel of taboo desires and repression, \u003cem\u003eI, Gloria Grahame\u003c\/em\u003e alternates between Gloria's imagined life with her film-director husband, Nicholas Ray, director of \u003ci\u003eRebel Without a Cause\u003c\/i\u003e, and Denton's increasingly frustrated real-life attempts to produce his own work of art: an all-male drag production of Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eVenus and Adonis\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA RARE MACHINES BOOK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sky Gilbert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 145974828X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781459748286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rare Machines\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d","brand":"Sky Gilbert","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995957788927,"sku":"9781459748286","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b4c237d6-5351-489b-be12-15bb75620ace.jpg?v=1683338867","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/i-gloria-grahame-sky-gilbert-9781459748286","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}