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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0375421459
ISBN-13: 9780375421457
Oct 2005
Publisher: Pantheon Books
227 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
An ex-model, now an aging office-cleaner struggling with poor health, looks back upon her rocky life and her friendship with an unusual woman. As Alison Owen transforms herself from teenage runaway to runway walker, her success as a beauty can never efface her feeling of inner ugliness. When her career prospects decline, she is reduced to working as a temp, leading to a fateful crossing of paths with Veronica, an emotionally vibrant but resolutely ugly proofreader who eventually dies of AIDS. Named a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award and one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2005.
| Size | | Length: | 227 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 14.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Gaitskill's style is gorgeously caustic and penetrating with a homing instinct toward the harrowing; her ability to capture abstract feelings and sensations with a precise and unexpected metaphor is a squirmy delight to encounter in such abundance."
Publishers Weekly - Heidi Julavits (08/01/2005)
"[A] ravishing novel about a friendship between a young fashion model and an unattractive older woman dying of AIDS....A gorgeous, articulate novel that is at once an unflinching meditation on degradation and a paean to deliverance."
Kirkus (08/01/2005)
"Mary Gaitskill's fierce, night-blooming new novel is about a close friendship between two women. But it should not be confused with anything cozy. Imagine a buddy story from the mind of William S. Burroughs, illustrated with images by Robert Mapplethorpe or David Cronenberg, and you get some idea of the tenderness to be found there....Ms. Gaitskill writes so radiantly about violent self-loathing that the very incongruousness of her language has shocking power."
New York Times - Janet Maslin (10/10/2005)
"[R]ead this book...for Gaitskill's sensuous yet precise language and her tough portrait of a bygone age."
Entertainment Weekly (10/14/2005)
"...VERONICA is a masterly examination of the relationship between surface and self, culture and fashion, time and memory....In VERONICA, as ever, Gaitskill's brand of brainy lyricism, of acid shot through with grace, is unlike anyone else's. And it constitutes some of the most incisive fiction writing around."
New York Times Book Review - Meghan O'Rourke (10/23/2005)
"[T]he marvel of VERONICA is how finely this novel reveals a life, and how the novel itself becomes a kind of revelation."
(03/01/2006)
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