Dorian

Will Self

first published 2002 Grove Press, 2004 paperback 288 pages

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...

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Editions we hold

Dorian edition · 2009 · Penguin Books, Limited · 288 pages · 9780141040202
Dorian edition · 2004 · Ed. de l'Olivier · 318 pages · 9782879293950
Dorian paperback · 2004 · Grove Press · 288 pages · 9780802140470
Dorian edition · 2003 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780141960975
Dorian edition · 2003 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780141013190
Dorian paperback · 2003 · Penguin Books · 278 pages
Dorian edition · 2002 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780141885797
Dorian edition · 2002 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780141886336
DORIAN. edition · 2002 · Grove Press, · 9780141885780
Dorian hardcover · 2002 · Grove Press · 277 pages
Dorian edition · 2002 · Viking · 277 pages

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