{"product_id":"9781951038328","title":"Gray : Vol. 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"An inventive, empowered, and thoroughly entertaining twist on a\n\u003cbr\u003eclassic. Gorgeous, provocative, and damn hard to put down.\" -- Diablo Cody\n\u003cbr\u003e(Oscar winning screenwriter of Juno, Jennifer's Body, and Young\n\u003cbr\u003eAdult)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"I can resist everything except a really clever contemporary\n\u003cbr\u003etake on The Portrait of Dorian Gray.\" -- David Baddiel (Best selling British\n\u003cbr\u003ecomedian and author of The Parent Agency, and The Secret\n\u003cbr\u003ePurposes)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Incisive, intriguing, wickedly funny. Every bit as clever as\n\u003cbr\u003eit thinks it is.\" -- Mike Carey (Eisner nominated writer of Unwritten, and\n\u003cbr\u003eLucifer)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA contemporary reimaging of the classic Oscar Wilde novel,\n\u003cbr\u003e\"The Picture of Dorian Gray,\" Gray is a supernatural revenge\n\u003cbr\u003ethriller about an alluring but violent woman, Dorian Gray, who seeks vengeance\n\u003cbr\u003eon a cabal of powerful men who wronged her years ago; and of the straight-laced\n\u003cbr\u003eAfrican American detective with a past of his own, who is tasked with stopping\n\u003cbr\u003eher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's only novel and one\n\u003cbr\u003eof the classics of gothic literature, is the tale of the most beautiful man of\n\u003cbr\u003ehis age, who sells his soul and his conscience in exchange for eternal youth,\n\u003cbr\u003ebeauty and power — and who spends his life murdering, raping and\n\u003cbr\u003ecorrupting. All the time in his attic, his picture degrades and\n\u003cbr\u003erots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGRAY takes that basic idea but flips its moral framework and gender\n\u003cbr\u003earchetypes: our DORIAN GRAY is a Millennial social media princess who drifts\n\u003cbr\u003ethrough the coolest cliques of NYC, breaking hearts and turning heads wherever\n\u003cbr\u003eshe goes. But Dorian has secrets. For one thing, she's a violent criminal.\n\u003cbr\u003eFor another, she's an immortal creature of magic, who commits violent\n\u003cbr\u003eburglaries and assaults some of New York's most powerful men. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e30\n\u003cbr\u003eyears ago, whilst an innocent student, Dorian was sexually assaulted by these\n\u003cbr\u003emen. In that moment that she became something both more and less than human. 30\n\u003cbr\u003eyears later, but not a day older, she's ready for her revenge. Then Dorian\n\u003cbr\u003emeets Detective HANK WUTAN, the African-American NYPD detective assigned to stop\n\u003cbr\u003ethese crimes, struggling with his own loyalties as a Black cop in the era of\n\u003cbr\u003eDefund the Police. Despite the fact that Dorian is his suspect number one, and\n\u003cbr\u003ehe is effectively working for her abusers, they fall for each other,\n\u003cbr\u003ehard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGRAY takes Wilde's classic novel and reinvents it as a tale\n\u003cbr\u003eof cathartic revenge for the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter era, a violent\n\u003cbr\u003efantasy about how powerful, super-rich white men don't always win, how the\n\u003cbr\u003epowerless can find justice, and about how a murderous demon and a law-abiding\n\u003cbr\u003edetective can be soul mates.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clover Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48840900313323,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":49.42,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781951038328-1.jpg?v=1781713605","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781951038328","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}