num_pages: 288
description: Will Self's DORIAN is a "shameless imitation" of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray that reimagines the novel in the milieu of London's early-80s art scene, which for liberated homosexuals were a golden era of sex, drugs and decadence before the AIDS epidemic struck later in the decade. It is "an age in which appearances matter more and more and more. Only the shallowest of people won't judge by them."
language: English
title: Dorian
titlecomplete: Dorian
characters: Baz Hallward, Henry Wotton, Phyllis Hawtree, Dorian Gray
genres: Retellings, British Literature, LGBT, Gay, Novels, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Queer
ratings_count: 1772
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist
publisher: Grove Press