{"product_id":"book-av7p","title":"Veronica","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eBad Behavior\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTwo Girls,  Fat and Thin, Veronica\u003c\/i\u003e is about flesh and spirit, vanity, mortality, and mortal affection.  Set mostly in Paris and Manhattan in the desperately glittering 1980s, it has the  timeless depth and moral power of a fairy tale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As a teenager on the streets of  San Francisco, Alison is discovered by a photographer and swept into the world of  fashion-modeling 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.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Masterfully layering time and space, thought and sensation,  Mary Gaitskill dazzles the reader with psychological insight and a mystical sense  of the soul’s hurtling passage through the world. A novel unlike any other, \u003ci\u003eVeronica\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force about the fragility and mystery of human relationships, the failure  of love, and love’s abiding power. It shines on every page with depth of feeling  and formal beauty.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49340460597552,"sku":"BDav7p","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/114233-av7p-Square.jpg?v=1734043944","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-av7p","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}