Sad Old Faggot by Gilbert, Sky

Sad Old Faggot (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781770413108)

Vendor: Sky Gilbert
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$19.95
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Sad Old Faggot by Gilbert, Sky

Sad Old Faggot

$19.95
Sad Old Faggot by Gilbert, Sky

Sad Old Faggot

$19.95
Format: Paperback
Description
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A daring foray into the groundbreaking genre of autobiographical fiction

Sad Old Faggot is the absorbing, sometimes embarrassing, always entertaining story of a lonely, self-obsessed, selfish, deluded, impotent 62-year-old gay man named Sky Gilbert who -- despite his best intentions -- cannot help but become a stereotype.

Sky's main claim to fame is founding Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in 1979. But since leaving Buddies, he's fallen on hard times. Sky Gilbert is no longer even remotely famous. He has to fight off his own bitterness as audiences for his plays steadily dwindle. Theatre people dismiss his work as old news and point to the fact that he teaches at the University of Guelph as proof: his descent into academia clearly signals his failure as an artist.

All along the way, the book questions our truths and celebrates their mutability. What is really true about each of us? What do we actually know about ourselves? And how much, it asks, of our own personal truth is based on fact -- and how much is rooted in fiction?

Author: Sky Gilbert
ISBN-10: 1770413103
ISBN-13: 9781770413108
Publisher: Misfit Book
Language: English
Published: 09/13/2016
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/17/2016
By Sky Gilbert
By Sky Gilbert
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Sky Gilbert is a writer, director, teacher, and drag queen extraordinaire. He was co-founder and artistic director of Toronto's Buddies in Bad Times Theatre for 17 years. He has had nearly 40 plays produced and written six critically acclaimed novels and three award-winning poetry collections. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario.

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