Dorian: An imitation - Softcover
Synopsis
It is 1981 and the "Royal Broodmare", as Henry Wotton calls her, is about to be married. Wotton, a homosexual, and his friend Baz have found a remarkable young man Dorian Gray, the epitome of male beauty. Sixteen years later, how does Dorian remain so youthful?
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Will Self has published three short story collections and three novels, all of which are in Penguin. His most recent novel HOW THE DEAD LIVE was shortlisted for the 2000 Whitbread Fiction prize, and DORIAN was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2002. Self is also a big media figure, with a regular BBC Radio 4 slot and a starring role in SHOOTING STARS on BBC2. He lives in Stockwell, South London
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR003308713
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Dorian: An imitation
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Condition: Bueno. : Dorian: An Imitation es una novela británica de Will Self, publicada por primera vez en 2002 y luego por Penguin en 2003. El libro es una versión moderna de El retrato de Dorian Gray de Oscar Wilde. La novela sigue a Dorian Gray en el Londres de los años 80, donde se ve envuelto en un mundo de drogas, sexo y decadencia. A medida que sus amigos sucumben a la epidemia del SIDA, Dorian permanece extrañamente joven e intacto. EAN: 9780141013190 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: Dorian: An imitation Autor: Will Self Editorial: Penguin Books Ltd Idioma: en Páginas: 288 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2025-04-30-f175a4ca
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DORIAN: AN IMITATION
Seller: Dial-A-Book, NARRABEEN, NSW, Australia
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Condition: Very Good. 8vo softcover 288pp very good. Henry Wotton, gay, drug addicted, and husband of Batface, the irrefutably aristocratic daughter of the Duke of This or That, is at the center of a clique dedicated to dissolution. His friend Baz Hallward, an artist, has discovered a young man who is the very epitome of male beauty - Dorian Gray. His installation Cathode Narcissus captures all of Dorian's allure, and, perhaps, something else. Certainly, after a night of debauchery that climaxes in a veritable conga line of buggery, Wotton and Hallward are caught in the hideous web of a retrovirus that becomes synonymous with the decade. Sixteen years later the Royal Broodmare, as Wotton has dubbed her, lies dying in a Parisian underpass. But what of Wotton and Hallward? How have they fared as stocks soar and T-cell counts plummet? And what of Dorian? How is it that he remains so youthful while all around him shrivel and die? Set against the AIDS epidemic of the eighties and nineties, Will Self's Dorian is a shameless reworking of our most significant myth of shamelessness, brilliantly evoking the decade in which it was fine to stare into the abyss, so long as you were wearing two pairs of Ray-Bans. Seller Inventory # 51652
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