Veronica

von Mary Gaitskill

274 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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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.One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: 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.

• Reihe: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• ISBN: 9780375727856
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.07.2006
• Größe: 203 x 132 mm
• Verlag: Random House