Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
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Gaitskill writes beautifully about the agonising emotions we often try to keep under wraps in real life* Grazia *
A sensitive, astute and uncompromising exploration of the beauty and ugliness of human relationships * Observer *
Gaitskill is a formidably gifted, astute writer... * The Sunday Business Post *
Gaitskill deserves some sort of monument [for this] beautiful, devastating new novel...There are paragraphs like poems in Veronica that lure you back, over and over. * Elle *
Gaitskill writes so radiantly about violent self-loathing that the very incongruousness of her language has shocking power. * The New York Times *
This characteristically oblique glance at the US fashion modeling industry of the 1980s is written with all the psychological kick that distinguished Gaitskill's last collection of stories. -- DJ Taylor * TLS Books of the Year *
Gaitskill is enormously gifted ... [Veronica] is a masterly examination of the relationship between surface and self, culture and fashion, time and memory. * The New York Times Book Review *
Both stripped-bare fragile and 'fuck you' tough. * Dazed & Confused *
A sensitive, astute and uncompromising exploration of the beauty and ugliness of human relationships * Observer *
A sensitive, astute and uncompromising exploration of the beauty and ugliness of human relationships * Observer *
Gaitskill is a formidably gifted, astute writer... * The Sunday Business Post *
Gaitskill deserves some sort of monument [for this] beautiful, devastating new novel...There are paragraphs like poems in Veronica that lure you back, over and over. * Elle *
Gaitskill writes so radiantly about violent self-loathing that the very incongruousness of her language has shocking power. * The New York Times *
This characteristically oblique glance at the US fashion modeling industry of the 1980s is written with all the psychological kick that distinguished Gaitskill's last collection of stories. -- DJ Taylor * TLS Books of the Year *
Gaitskill is enormously gifted ... [Veronica] is a masterly examination of the relationship between surface and self, culture and fashion, time and memory. * The New York Times Book Review *
Both stripped-bare fragile and 'fuck you' tough. * Dazed & Confused *
A sensitive, astute and uncompromising exploration of the beauty and ugliness of human relationships * Observer *
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award) and Don't Cry, and the novels Veronica (nominated for a National Book Award) and Two Girls, Fat and Thin. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories and the O. Henry Prize Stories.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781781255926 |
| ISBN 10 | 178125592X |
| Title | Veronica |
| Author | Mary Gaitskill |
| Series | Serpent's Tail Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2016-12-08 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |