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Sad Old Faggot

A Novel

By: Sky Gilbert

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Paperback | 13 September 2016

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Sad Old Faggot is a brilliant foray into the groundbreaking genre of autobiographical fiction. It's 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 Guelph University as proof: his descent into academia clearly signals his failure as an artist.

Ultimately Sad Old Faggot is ? like Karl Ove Knausgaard's magnum opus, My Struggle ? the story of a boy in search of his father. Only in this case the boy is gay. In Sad Old Faggot, Sky follows a tantalizing set of clues on a journey to discover whether his real father was the closeted Hollywood actor (and bestselling author) Tom Tryon. Along the way, the book questions all 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?

Industry Reviews

“The indefatigable Gilbert — co-founder of the Toronto gay theatre company Buddies in Bad Times, author of 60 plays, seven novels — joins Karl Ove Knausgaard and Sheila Heti with his take on autobiographical fiction … Gilbert, at 62, is in good form, entertaining, brave and deliberately shocking.” — Toronto Star

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