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Dorian

Will Self

2002277 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2002
first published
  • 2002Grove Press, · ENGISBN 9780141885780
  • 2002Penguin Books, Limited · ENGISBN 9780141885797
  • 2002Grove Press · 277 pages · ENGISBN 9780802117298
  • 2002Viking · 277 pages · ENGISBN 9780670889969
  • 2003Penguin Books, Limited · ENGISBN 9780141960975
  • 2009Penguin Books, Limited · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9780141040202
  • 2004Grove Press · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9780802140470
  • 2003Penguin Books · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9780140290561

In the summer of 1981, aristocratic, drug-addicted Henry Wotton and Warhol-acolyte Baz Hallward meet Dorian Gray. Dorian is a golden Adonis- perfect, pure and (so far) deliciously uncorrupted. The subject of Baz's video installation, Cathode Narcissus, and the object of Henry's attentions, Dorian is launched on a hedonistic binge that spans the '80s and '90s. But as Baz and Henry succumb to the AIDS epidemic, how is it that Dorian, despite all his sexual and narcotic debauchery, remains so unsullied - so vibrantly alive?

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ThemesMorality
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