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Veronica
- Title
- Veronica / Mary Gaitskill.
- Author
- Gaitskill, Mary, 1954-
- Publication
- New York : Pantheon Books, ©2005.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | JFD 06-142 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 06-142
- ISBN
- 0375421459
- 9780375421457
- LCCN
- 2005043143
- 9780375421457
- OCLC
- 57693314
- Author
- Gaitskill, Mary, 1954-
- Title
- Veronica / Mary Gaitskill.
- Imprint
- New York : Pantheon Books, ©2005.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Description
- 227 pages ; 22 cm
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Creator/Contributor Characteristics
- Women
- Summary
- When I was young, my mother read me a story about a wicked little girl. She read it to me and my two sisters. We sat curled against her on the couch and she read from the book on her lap. The lamp shone on us and there was a blanket over us. The girl in the story was beautiful and cruel. Because her mother was poor, she sent her daughter to work for rich people, who spoiled and petted her. The rich people told her she had to visit her mother. But the girl felt she was too good and went merely to show herself. One day, the rich people sent her home with a loaf of bread for her mother. But when the little girl came to a muddy bog, rather than ruin her shoes, she threw down the bread and stepped on it. It sank into the bog and she sank with it. She sank into a world of demons and deformed creatures. Because she was beautiful, the demon queen made her into a statue as a gift for her great-grandson. The girl was covered in snakes and slime and surrounded by the hate of every creature trapped like she was. She was starving but couldn't eat the bread still welded to her feet. She could hear what people were saying about her; a boy passing by saw what had happened to her and told everyone, and they all said she deserved it. Even her mother said she deserved it. The girl couldn't move, but if she could have, she would've twisted with rage. "It isn't fair!" cried my mother, and her voice mocked the wicked girl.
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- Online version: Gaitskill, Mary, 1954- Veronica. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, ©2005 (OCoLC)607615798Online version: Gaitskill, Mary, 1954- Veronica. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, ©2005 (OCoLC)608565707
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780375421457
- Research Call Number
- JFD 06-142