The Resource Veronica, Mary Gaitskill
Veronica, Mary Gaitskill
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- Summary
- The friendship that began in the 1980s between Alison, a young woman struggling with her ruined career as a fashion model, and Veronica, an older eccentric proofreader, survives Alison's return to the world of fashion and Veronica's battle with AIDS
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
- Extent
- 257 pages
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 2005
- Isbn
- 9780375727856
- Label
- Veronica
- Title
- Veronica
- Statement of responsibility
- Mary Gaitskill
- Subject
-
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueFeminine beauty (Aesthetics)
- trueFriends' death
- Psychological fiction
- trueFashion models
- trueYoung women
- AIDS (Disease) -- Patients
- trueManhattan, New York City
- trueSick women
- trueNew York City
- Middle-aged women
- trueHousekeepers
- Female friendship
- trueDeath
- Grief
- Middle-aged women -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- trueMiddle-aged women
- trueHousehold employees
- Psychological fiction
- true1980s -- 1980 -- 1989
- trueIntergenerational friendship
- AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Fiction
- trueEccentric women
- truePsychological fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- trueWomen with AIDS
- AIDS (Disease) in women
- truePeople with AIDS
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- trueParis, France
- New York (State) -- New York
- trueShort stories
- Fiction
- Death -- Fiction
- trueLove
- trueFemale friendship
- AIDS (Disease) in women -- Fiction
- Grief -- Fiction
- trueGrief
- Death
- trueWomen proofreaders
- trueMemories
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The friendship that began in the 1980s between Alison, a young woman struggling with her ruined career as a fashion model, and Veronica, an older eccentric proofreader, survives Alison's return to the world of fashion and Veronica's battle with AIDS
- Summary
- As a teenager on the streets of San Francisco, Alison is discovered by a photographer and swept into the world of fashion modelling 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.
- Award
-
- ALA Notable Book, 2006.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2005
- Awards note
- New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year, 2005; National Book Award finalist, 2005.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 136743
- Cataloging source
- AMP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1954-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gaitskill, Mary
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Middle-aged women
- AIDS (Disease)
- AIDS (Disease) in women
- Female friendship
- New York (N.Y.)
- Death
- Grief
- Psychological fiction
- AIDS (Disease) in women
- AIDS (Disease)
- Death
- Female friendship
- Grief
- Middle-aged women
- Psychological fiction
- New York (State)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Veronica, Mary Gaitskill
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 2005
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm70804760
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
- Extent
- 257 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375727856
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)70804760
- Label
- Veronica, Mary Gaitskill
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 2005
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm70804760
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
- Extent
- 257 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375727856
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)70804760
Subject
- true1980s -- 1980 -- 1989
- AIDS (Disease) -- Patients
- AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Fiction
- AIDS (Disease) in women
- AIDS (Disease) in women -- Fiction
- trueDeath
- Death
- Death -- Fiction
- trueEccentric women
- trueFashion models
- trueFemale friendship
- Female friendship
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- trueFeminine beauty (Aesthetics)
- Fiction
- trueFriends' death
- Grief
- trueGrief
- Grief -- Fiction
- trueHousehold employees
- trueHousekeepers
- trueIntergenerational friendship
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueLove
- trueManhattan, New York City
- trueMemories
- trueMiddle-aged women
- Middle-aged women
- Middle-aged women -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- New York (State) -- New York
- trueNew York City
- trueParis, France
- truePeople with AIDS
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- truePsychological fiction
- trueShort stories
- trueSick women
- trueWomen proofreaders
- trueWomen with AIDS
- trueYoung women
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