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I, Gloria Grahame

Sky Gilbert

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Description: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, and inside his headhe is really a long-dead movie star — the glamorous Gloria Grahame, from the golden age ofHollywood. 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 any story atall?This scandalous, satirical novel of taboo desires and repression alternates between Gloria’simagined 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. It takes us from high-strung film setsto dark bars to the puritanical offices of government arts granting agencies, where Denton runsup against the sternest warnings that he may not, in fact, imagine himself as someone else, evenin art.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with I, Gloria Grahame. To get started finding I, Gloria Grahame, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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, and inside his headhe is really a long-dead movie star — the glamorous Gloria Grahame, from the golden age ofHollywood. 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 any story atall?This scandalous, satirical novel of taboo desires and repression alternates between Gloria’simagined 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. It takes us from high-strung film setsto dark bars to the puritanical offices of government arts granting agencies, where Denton runsup against the sternest warnings that he may not, in fact, imagine himself as someone else, evenin art.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with I, Gloria Grahame. To get started finding I, Gloria Grahame, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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