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Veronica
Mary Gaitskill
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Description for Veronica
Paperback. Series: Serpent's Tail Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 228.
Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: one is a former modelling sensation, stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other an eccentric middle-aged proofreader with a meticulous eye. Over the next twenty years their friendship will encompass narcissism and tenderness, exploitation and self-sacrifice, love and mortality. Moving seamlessly between the glamorous and gritty '80s, when beauty and style gave licence to excess, and the broken world of the decade's survivors twenty years later, Gaitskill casts a fierce yet compassionate eye on the two eras and their fixations. Veronica masterfully evokes the fragility and mystery of human relationships in a world where love is rife with frightening artificiality. Evocative, raw and entirely unique, Veronica was shortlisted for the prestigious 2005 National Book Award in the USA.
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Serpent's Tail Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781255926
SKU
V9781781255926
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About Mary Gaitskill
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 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.
Reviews for Veronica
Gaitskill writes beautifully about the agonising emotions we often try to keep under wraps in real life.
Grazia
A sensitive, astute and uncompromising exploration of the beauty and ugliness of human relationships
Observer
Gaitskill is a formidably gifted, astute writer...
The Sunday Business Post
Gaitskill deserves some sort of monument [for this] beautiful, devastating new novel...There are paragraphs like poems in Veronica that lure you back, over and over.
Elle
Gaitskill writes so radiantly about violent self-loathing that the very incongruousness of her language has shocking power.
The New York Times
This characteristically oblique glance at the US fashion modeling industry of the 1980s is written with all the psychological kick that distinguished Gaitskill's last collection of stories.
DJ Taylor
TLS Books of the Year
Gaitskill is enormously gifted ... [Veronica] is a masterly examination of the relationship between surface and self, culture and fashion, time and memory.
The New York Times Book Review
Both stripped-bare fragile and 'fuck you' tough.
Dazed & Confused
A sensitive, astute and uncompromising exploration of the beauty and ugliness of human relationships
Observer
Grazia
A sensitive, astute and uncompromising exploration of the beauty and ugliness of human relationships
Observer
Gaitskill is a formidably gifted, astute writer...
The Sunday Business Post
Gaitskill deserves some sort of monument [for this] beautiful, devastating new novel...There are paragraphs like poems in Veronica that lure you back, over and over.
Elle
Gaitskill writes so radiantly about violent self-loathing that the very incongruousness of her language has shocking power.
The New York Times
This characteristically oblique glance at the US fashion modeling industry of the 1980s is written with all the psychological kick that distinguished Gaitskill's last collection of stories.
DJ Taylor
TLS Books of the Year
Gaitskill is enormously gifted ... [Veronica] is a masterly examination of the relationship between surface and self, culture and fashion, time and memory.
The New York Times Book Review
Both stripped-bare fragile and 'fuck you' tough.
Dazed & Confused
A sensitive, astute and uncompromising exploration of the beauty and ugliness of human relationships
Observer