Veronica (Vintage Contemporaries)

Veronica (Vintage Contemporaries)

The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behavior and Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Veronica is about flesh and spirit, vanity, mortality, and mortal affection. Set mostly in Paris and Manhattan in the desperately glittering 1980s, it has the timeless depth and moral power of a fairy tale.

As a teenager on the streets of San Francisco, Alison is discovered by a photographer and swept into the world of fashion-modeling in Paris and Rome. When her career crashes and a love affair ends disastrously, she moves to New York City to build a new life. There she meets Veronicaâ‚¬"an older wisecracking eccentric with her own ideas about style, a proofreader who comes to work with a personal â‚¬Å“office kitâ‚¬Â and a plaque that reads â‚¬Å“Still Anal After All These Years.â‚¬Â Improbably, the two women become friends. Their friendship will survive not only Alisonâ‚¬s reentry into the seductive nocturnal realm of fashion, but also Veronicaâ‚¬s terrible descent into the then-uncharted realm of AIDS. The memory of their friendship will continue to haunt Alison years later, when she, too, is aging and ill and is questioning the meaning of what she experienced and who she became during that time.

Masterfully layering time and space, thought and sensation, Mary Gaitskill dazzles the reader with psychological insight and a mystical sense of the soulâ‚¬s hurtling passage through the world. A novel unlike any other, Veronica is a tour de force about the fragility and mystery of human relationships, the failure of love, and loveâ‚¬s abiding power. It shines on every page with depth of feeling and formal beauty.
Country USA
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-03-13
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Vintage
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-03-13
Format	Kindle eBook

Veronica (Vintage Contemporaries)

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