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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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520 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Middle-aged women  |v Fiction. 
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650 0 |a AIDS (Disease) in women  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Female friendship  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Death  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Grief  |v Fiction. 
651 0 |a New York (N.Y.)  |v Fiction. 
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