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Dorian
  • Published: 13 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141040202
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $45.00

Dorian

An imitation

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26 June 2003
Paperback
13 July 2009
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Will Self is one the world's greatest living writers and to celebrate the publication of his masterpiece, Liver, in paperback we are giving his backlist a spectacular new look

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?
  • Published: 13 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141040202
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Will Self

Will Self is the author of many novels and books of non-fiction, including Great Apes, The Book of Dave, How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2002, The Butt, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2008, Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2012, and Shark. His most recent novel, Phone, was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. He lives in south London.
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The Book of Dave
The Examined Mind
Will
Will Self's Great British Bus Journey
Phone
Shark
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