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Title: Beauty of Words Beyond the Beauty of Form
Review: The prose of the novel really draws the reader in. Usually, when the subject matter revolves around the 80's, we are often given pop culture references for laughs. Veronica, however, makes you want to cry.It's a story about a girl who wants to be pretty, and by all accounts is, and famous. Gaitskill does an amazing job giving depth and breadth to a character we all too often assume as being flat and thin.This isn't a story about purposeful self-destruction; rather, it is a narrative of how we lived during the 80's--carpe diem, living for the day, living for the self. It is a parallel to those Horatio Alger stories we all used to read and love, only Gaitskill follows the trajectory of the one who failed.I love this story because it paints the world in all its ugliness and yet redeems it through the beauty of words rather than the beauty of form.
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