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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 Veronica--an older wisecracking eccentric with her own ideas about style, a proofreader who comes to work with a personal 'office kit' and a plaque that reads 'Still Anal After All These Years.' Improbably, the two women become friends. Their friendship will survive not only Alison's reentry into the seductive nocturnal realm of fashion, but also Veronica'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. Maste

Who reads Veronica (Vintage Contemporaries)?

Author

Mary Gaitskill; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299274105

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.5 / 5 (369 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14