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From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. [Signature] Reviewed by Heidi Julavits Imagine that Edie Sedgwick penned a roman à clef in her 50s, and that she discovered, in her ugly, diseased decrepitude, that celebrities and downtown loft spaces and skuzzy rich hangers-on were the nadir of existence. Imagine that she managed, in her own post–trauma-addled way, to convey a beautiful-ugly portrait of this life, and the life that followed that life, a life of cleaning offices and riding public buses, in a wincingly acute manner that allowed you not only to forgive the destructiveness in which her youthful self luxuriated but view it as a real human tragedy. This is the accomplishment of Veronica , or rather of Alison, who is the narrator and soul-wearied subject of Mary Gaitskill's second novel. Alison, who lived an Edie-ish life, has a face that is ''broken, with age and pain coming through the cracks.'' Now in her 50s, she cleans her friend's toilet for money, she's sick with hepatitis and her ''focus sometimes slips and goes funny'';an apt description of her story's pleasing disorientation, a story which amounts to a nonchronological recounting of her ''bright and scalding'' past as s

Who reads Veronica?

Author

Gaitskill, Mary

Publisher

Vintage

Published

2005

Language

EN

Category

science

Subjects

Fantasy, Fiction

Rating

3.37 / 5 (93 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14