Veronica
Gaitskill, Mary, 1954-2016
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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.
Main title:
Veronica / Mary Gaitskill.
Author:
Gaitskill, Mary, 1954-, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Serpent's Tail, 2016.©2005
Collation:
xiv, 257 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
"With a new introduction by the author."Originally published: 2005.
ISBN:
97803754214579781781255926 (pbk)9781781255926 (paperback)178125592X (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
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Subject:
BRN:
111550
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Melbourne Library | Fiction | GAIT | Available |