Veronica

The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behavior & Two Girls, Fat & Thin, Veronica is about flesh & spirit, vanity, mortality, & mortal affection. Set mostly in Paris & Manhattan in the desperately glittering 1980s, it has the timeless depth & moral power of a fairy tale.

As a teenager on the streets of San Francisco, Alison is discovered by a photographer & swept into the world of fashion-modeling in Paris & Rome. When her career crashes & 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" & 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...