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 fierc...(展开全部)

玛丽·盖茨基尔 Mary Gaitskill 著有短篇小说集Bad Behavior、长篇小说Two Girls, Fat and Thin，以及短篇小说集Because They Wanted To，此书曾获一九九八年“美国笔会/福克纳奖”提名。小说与散文散见《纽约客》杂志、《哈泼杂志》、《君子杂志》、《一九九三年美国短篇小说奖》，以及《一九九八年欧亨利奖小说集》。短篇小说《秘书》（Secretary）曾改编为同名电影（台湾中文片名为《怪咖情缘》）。曾获古根汉基金会研究奖金。现居纽约，并在雪城大学（Syracuse University）教授创作写作。

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The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behavior and Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Veronica 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. As a teenager on the streets of San Francisco, Alison is discovered by a ...(展开全部)