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Veronica (2005)

di Mary Gaitskill

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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML: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.

Masterfully layering time and space, thought and sensation, Mary Gaitskill dazzles the reader with psychological insight and a mystical sense of the soul??s hurtling passage through the world. A novel unlike any other, Veronica is a tour de force about the fragility and mystery of human relationships, the failure of love, and love??s abiding power. It shines on every page with depth of
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A story of awakening compassion. As with much of her writing, Gaitskill takes me back to my youth. ( )
  monicaberger | Jan 22, 2024 |
Barely started when I decided not to read further.
  Bookish59 | Apr 29, 2022 |
A painful and honest look at the subtle, complex, and conflicting thoughts and feelings that are involved in relationships. The protagonist, Alison, is not a very likeable person most times, but I could identify with her. An older and wiser Alison looks back on her past relationships with her father, mother, sisters, lovers, and above all, with her friend Veronica. ( )
  Charon07 | Jul 16, 2021 |
I'm glad that I finally read this book. I found that the initial feeling of emotional detachment the narrator exhibited was off-putting, but as the book went on, it really grew on me as a way to differentiate how she felt about the past versus the feelings she had from the slice of life we got to see from her in the present. ( )
  Katie_Roscher | Jan 18, 2019 |
Veronica was ordered because Mary Gaitskill's THE MARE was quite good.

This one is not.
It has a fully disgusting opening description of the main character's
view of a canal near her apartment.

Boring and contrived dreams then alternate with a ton of depressing events.
60s cliches are introduced for shock value.

There's even the obligatory modern novel animal cruelty with a puppy.

Very disappointing. ( )
  m.belljackson | Oct 26, 2016 |
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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML: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.

Masterfully layering time and space, thought and sensation, Mary Gaitskill dazzles the reader with psychological insight and a mystical sense of the soul??s hurtling passage through the world. A novel unlike any other, Veronica is a tour de force about the fragility and mystery of human relationships, the failure of love, and love??s abiding power. It shines on every page with depth of

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