num_pages: 257
description: 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.Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New 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.
language: English
title: Veronica
titlecomplete: Veronica
genres: Audiobook, American, New York, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Womens, Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 6038
places: New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage