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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. A RARE MACHINES BOOK
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