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Once you were inside the Chelsea home of Henry and Victoria Wotton it was impossible to tell whether it was day or night-time.
Once you were inside the Chelsea home of Henry and Victoria Wotton it was impossible to tell whether it was day or night-time.
About this book
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?
Themes & subjects
FictionAIDS (Disease)Gay menConduct of lifePatientsFiction, psychological
First published 2002Characters & people
Setting
England1981
About the author
Will Self
1961
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