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Book Description
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-sacrifiContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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A plain book about beauty
When people write about their experiences as drug addicts they often — wittingly or not — write with a degree of competitiveness. There is a tacit understanding that the reader will feel cheated by anything less than a full-blown addiction to class-A ... (read full critics)
spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- Paperback 272 Pages
- ISBN-10: 037572785X
- ISBN-13: 9780375727856
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Jul 18, 2006
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover and Audio CD
- In other languages: other languages
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780375727856 | Paperback | $14.95 | $12.78 | bn.com |
| $14.95 | $11.68 | The Book Depository | ||
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Don't look back
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill 262pp, Serpent's Tail, £10.99 The 1980s are alive and well in the minds of certain authors. The decade of Kathy Acker, Jay McInerney and Tama Janowitz casts a long and cliché-burdened shadow over a branch of fiction that de ... (read full critics)