“An inventive, empowered, and thoroughly entertaining twist on a
classic. Gorgeous, provocative, and damn hard to put down.” -- Diablo Cody
(Oscar winning screenwriter of Juno, Jennifer's Body, and Young
Adult)
“I can resist everything except a really clever contemporary
take on The Portrait of Dorian Gray." -- David Baddiel (Best selling British
comedian and author of The Parent Agency, and The Secret
Purposes)
"Incisive, intriguing, wickedly funny. Every bit as clever as
it thinks it is." -- Mike Carey (Eisner nominated writer of Unwritten, and
Lucifer)
A contemporary reimaging of the classic Oscar Wilde novel,
“The Picture of Dorian Gray,” Gray is a supernatural revenge
thriller about an alluring but violent woman, Dorian Gray, who seeks vengeance
on a cabal of powerful men who wronged her years ago; and of the straight-laced
African American detective with a past of his own, who is tasked with stopping
her.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde’s only novel and one
of the classics of gothic literature, is the tale of the most beautiful man of
his age, who sells his soul and his conscience in exchange for eternal youth,
beauty and power — and who spends his life murdering, raping and
corrupting. All the time in his attic, his picture degrades and
rots.
GRAY takes that basic idea but flips its moral framework and gender
archetypes: our DORIAN GRAY is a Millennial social media princess who drifts
through the coolest cliques of NYC, breaking hearts and turning heads wherever
she goes. But Dorian has secrets. For one thing, she’s a violent criminal.
For another, she’s an immortal creature of magic, who commits violent
burglaries and assaults some of New York’s most powerful men.
30
years ago, whilst an innocent student, Dorian was sexually assaulted by these
men. In that moment that she became something both more and less than human. 30
years later, but not a day older, she’s ready for her revenge. Then Dorian
meets Detective HANK WUTAN, the African-American NYPD detective assigned to stop
these crimes, struggling with his own loyalties as a Black cop in the era of
Defund the Police. Despite the fact that Dorian is his suspect number one, and
he is effectively working for her abusers, they fall for each other,
hard.
GRAY takes Wilde’s classic novel and reinvents it as a tale
of cathartic revenge for the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter era, a violent
fantasy about how powerful, super-rich white men don’t always win, how the
powerless can find justice, and about how a murderous demon and a law-abiding
detective can be soul mates.
- ISBN10 1951038320
- ISBN13 9781951038328
- Publish Date 2 December 2021
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Clover Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 124
- Language English