A contemporary re-imagining of the classic Oscar Wilde novel, "The
Picture of Dorian Gray," Gray, Vol. 2 is the conclusion of the
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.
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