Against Nature Small Town & Rural Fiction Winner 1989 Booker Prize: A

Winner 1989 Booker Prize: A tragic

spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England

River Cartwright

And as patrol cars and search teams descend on the neighbourhood

Against Nature Small Town & Rural Fiction Winner 1989 Booker Prize: AThe infamous inspiration for the novel which slowly corrupts Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray is translated by Robert Baldick with an introduction by Patrick McGuinness. A wildly original fin de sicle novel, Against Nature contains only one character. Des Esseintes is a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where he indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous excitability and debilitating ennui, he gluts his