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Rent Veronica
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: Jul 2006
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $18.00
Pages: 288
Synopsis
An ex-model, now an aging office-cleaner struggling with poor health, looks back upon her rocky life and her friendship with an unusual woman. As Alison Owen transforms herself from teenage runaway to runway walker, her success as a beauty can never efface her feeling of inner ugliness. When her career prospects decline, she is reduced to working as a temp, leading to a fateful crossing of paths with Veronica, an emotionally vibrant but resolutely ugly proofreader who eventually dies of AIDS. Named a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award and one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2005.
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Reviews
I thought it was boring and whinny.