Veronica: A Novel
 

Veronica: A Novel

by Mary Gaitskill

The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behavior and Two Girls, Fat and Thin, 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... (read more)

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Mindy H
  • Rated 4 stars

I have mixed feelings about this novel. If I'd read a synopsis of the book first, I would never have read it. The book focuses heavily on sex, drugs and the wild side of life, not generally things I want to read about. But the language the author uses is simply incredible. It was like reading poetry throughout the whole book. The language was like a piece of gauze floating and twisting on the wind, and in between swirls and bellows, you'd see something really crude through the gauze. I can't...

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Sarah Z
  • Rated 2 stars

I saw Mary Gaitskill read a number of years back, and I really enjoyed the scene she shared at that time. The prose is rather lulling, much like a boat on a calm sea, and because of that my mind tends to wander while reading.

Unfortunately, none of the passion and desperation conveyed in her reading came across in the novel itself. This book was boring in its tragedy and self-indulgent in its introspection. I was left wondering how I was supposed to feel, and still wondering how the...

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  • Rated 3.5 stars
 

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