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082915 |
| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 121975 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
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Duration: 8:29:15. |
| Performer |
Read by Kathe Mazur. |
| Summary |
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 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. |
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Middle-aged women -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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AIDS (Disease) in women -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Female friendship -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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Death -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Grief -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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| Added Author |
Mazur, Kathe.
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| ISBN |
9781415947623 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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1415947627 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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