Veronica

Mary Gaitskill · 2005 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Alison, once a fashion model in 1980s New York and Paris, is now ill and cleaning offices, and remembers her friendship with Veronica, a plain older proofreader dying of AIDS. The relationship is the one that mattered most to her, and it is told out of order. A National Book Award finalist, it is regarded as a central novel of the epidemic's aftermath.

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