Dorian An Imitation

"Self has many narrative gifts, but reticence is not chief among them. As a result, much of his rewriting of Wilde involves making loud and clear what remained whisperingly implicit in his original....Wilde's poised comments on the effect that life and style can have on one another are reflected in clunking references to the superficiality of 1980s lifestyles....At its best--and Self is often at his best here--this is funny and coolly clever. At once a homage, a parody and a critical commentary, DORIAN provides a set of variations on Wilde's novel which is as supremely mannered as the original....And yet...[f]or all the varieties of evil which Dorian displays, so flatly equivalent do they sound in Self's prose that reading about them is rather like watching a fireworks display on a black-and-white television."Self, Will is the author of 'Dorian An Imitation' with ISBN 9780802140470 and ISBN 0802140475.