Veronica

Author(s): Mary Gaitskill

Fiction

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.

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Beloved cult novel repackaged to join the Serpent's Tail Classics series

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

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.

General Fields

  • : 9781781255926
  • : Serpent's Tail Limited
  • : Serpent's Tail Limited
  • : 0.23
  • : October 2016
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : January 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Mary Gaitskill
  • : Paperback
  • : 1701
  • : English
  • : 813.54
  • : 272
  • : FA