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Veronica

Mary Gaitskill

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.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : JAN 15, 2017
  • Imprint : Serpent's Tail
  • Page Extent : 272
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781781255926
  • Price : INR 650
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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.

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