The Resource Veronica, Mary Gaitskill
Veronica, Mary Gaitskill
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The item Veronica, Mary Gaitskill represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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- Summary
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- "Veronica is about flesh and spirit, vanity, mortality, and mortal affection. Set mostly in Paris and Manhattan in the desperately glittering 1980s, it has the timeless depth and moral power of a fairy tale."
- "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."
- "Veronica is about the fragility and mystery of human relationships, the failure of love, and love's abiding power."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Veronica
- Title
- Veronica
- Statement of responsibility
- Mary Gaitskill
- Subject
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- Death -- Fiction
- trueEccentric women
- trueFashion models
- trueFemale friendship
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- trueFeminine beauty (Aesthetics)
- trueFriends' death
- trueGrief
- Grief -- Fiction
- trueHousehold employees
- trueHousekeepers
- AIDS (Disease) -- Patients | Fiction
- AIDS (Disease) in women -- Fiction
- trueDeath
- truePeople with AIDS
- trueSick women
- trueWomen proofreaders
- trueWomen with AIDS
- trueYoung women
- trueIntergenerational friendship
- trueLove
- trueManhattan, New York City
- trueMemories
- Middle aged women -- Fiction
- trueMiddle-aged women
- trueNew York City
- trueParis, France
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "Veronica is about flesh and spirit, vanity, mortality, and mortal affection. Set mostly in Paris and Manhattan in the desperately glittering 1980s, it has the timeless depth and moral power of a fairy tale."
- "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."
- "Veronica is about the fragility and mystery of human relationships, the failure of love, and love's abiding power."--BOOK JACKET
- Award
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- ALA Notable Book, 2006.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2005
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 136743
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1954-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gaitskill, Mary
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- AIDS (Disease) in women
- Middle aged women
- Grief
- Female friendship
- Death
- AIDS (Disease)
- Label
- Veronica, Mary Gaitskill
- Control code
- 000026725752
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 227 p.
- Isbn
- 9780375421457
- Label
- Veronica, Mary Gaitskill
- Control code
- 000026725752
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 227 p.
- Isbn
- 9780375421457
Subject
- Death -- Fiction
- trueEccentric women
- trueFashion models
- trueFemale friendship
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- trueFeminine beauty (Aesthetics)
- trueFriends' death
- trueGrief
- Grief -- Fiction
- trueHousehold employees
- trueHousekeepers
- AIDS (Disease) -- Patients | Fiction
- AIDS (Disease) in women -- Fiction
- trueDeath
- truePeople with AIDS
- trueSick women
- trueWomen proofreaders
- trueWomen with AIDS
- trueYoung women
- trueIntergenerational friendship
- trueLove
- trueManhattan, New York City
- trueMemories
- Middle aged women -- Fiction
- trueMiddle-aged women
- trueNew York City
- trueParis, France
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