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Veronica

Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New One is a young model stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other an eccentric middle-aged office temp. Over the next twenty years their friendship will encompass narcissism and tenderness, exploitation and self-sacrifice, lo...

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Main Author: Gaitskill, Mary, 1954-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2006, c2005.
Edition:1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
Subjects:
Middle-aged women > Fiction.
AIDS (Disease) > Patients > Fiction.
AIDS (Disease) in women > Fiction.
Female friendship > Fiction.
Death > Fiction.
Grief > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Psychological fiction.
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Summary:Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New One is a young model stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other an eccentric middle-aged office temp. Over the next twenty years their friendship will encompass narcissism and tenderness, exploitation and self-sacrifice, love and mortality. Moving seamlessly from present and past, casting a fierce yet compassionate eye on two eras and their fixations, the result is a work of timeless depth and moral power.
Physical Description:257 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:037572785X
9780375727856
Author Notes:Mary Gaitskill was born in Lexington, Kentucky on November 11, 1954. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan. She is a novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her novels include Veronica, The Mare, and Two Girls, Fat and Thin. Her collections of short stories include Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To, and Don't Cry.

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