Veronica -- Mary Gaitskill, Paperback

A finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, here is an evocative novel about female friendship in the glittering 1980s.

Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: 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.

Author: Mary Gaitskill
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/18/2006
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.05h x 6.62w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780375727856

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/23/2006 pg. 20
New Yorker (The) 11/09/2015 pg. 77

About the Author
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award), and Don't Cry, and the novels The Mare, Veronica (nominated for a National Book Award) and Two Girls, Fat and Thin. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories.