Veronica
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.
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.
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Community Reviews
This isn't really about Veronica, it's about the narrator character Allison, a model in Paris and New York. The writing is both good and unique but also crass in a way that made me feel like a curmudgeonly old lady. "Why is that necessary? Or that? Or that?"
To the extent that it is about Veronica, I'm offended for Veronica. Veronica's love story reminded me of Patti Smith and Robert Maplethorpe in [b:Just Kids|341879|Just Kids|Patti Smith|https:images.gr-assets.com/books/1259762407s/341879.jpg|332242]. In fact, a famous and crass Robert Maplethorpe photograph does make an appearance in this book.
In short, this novel was good; I did not enjoy it.
To the extent that it is about Veronica, I'm offended for Veronica. Veronica's love story reminded me of Patti Smith and Robert Maplethorpe in [b:Just Kids|341879|Just Kids|Patti Smith|https:images.gr-assets.com/books/1259762407s/341879.jpg|332242]. In fact, a famous and crass Robert Maplethorpe photograph does make an appearance in this book.
In short, this novel was good; I did not enjoy it.
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