Veronica

mary gaitskill

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 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.

Genres fictionliterary fictionnovelscontemporarybook clubnew yorkamerican21st centuryaudiobookliterature

257 pages, Paperback

First published October 11,2005

Literary awards

los angeles times book prize, national book critics circle award, national book award finalist,

Places

new york city new york,

This edition

Format: 257 pages, Paperback
Published: July 18, 2006 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780375727856
ASIN: 037572785X
Language: English

About the author

mary gaitskill

Mary Gaitskill is an American author of essays, short stories and novels. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories (1993 and 2006), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998). She married writer Peter Trachtenberg in 2001. As of 2005, she lived in New York City; Gaitskill has previously lived in Toronto, San Francisco, and Marin County, CA, as well as attending the University of Michigan where she earned her B.A. and won a Hopwood Award. Gaitskill has recounted (in her essay "Revelation") becoming a born-again Christian at age 21 but lapsing after six months.