Bibliograph

Veronica, Mary Gaitskill

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Veronica, Mary Gaitskill

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Veronica

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

835118645

Responsibility statement

Mary Gaitskill

Summary

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

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