"Gatiskill is enormously gifted. . . . [Veronica] is a
masterly examination of the relationship between surface and self,
culture and fasion, time and memory.." -The New York Times Book
Review
"Twisted, beautiful, grotesque, graceful, and exceedingly
well-executed. People write their whole lives in the hope of coming
up with just one sentences that rises to the level of this
book."-The Sunday Oregonian
"Gaitskill taps into a deeper vein of emotional force, and with
vivid language and an absorbing architecture, she delivers her most
affecting, sophisticated work to date."-The Boston
Globe
"Beautiful, devastating. . . . Gaitskill devotes almost religious
attention to language and to our failure to make our lives as grand
as the art we love. There are paragraphs like poems in Veronica
that lure you back, over and over." -Elle
"Gaitskill writes so radiantly about violent self-loathing that the
very incongruousness of her language has shocking power." - Janet
Maslin, The New York Times
"Sensuous and precise...Veronica captures the nexus
between the erotic glamour [of the 1980''s] and its epic
heartlessness." -Entertainment Weekly
"Gaitskill has written a novel that will leave you shaking and
joyful simultaneously, dizzy with the proximity of private terror
and bottomless hope."-O Magazine
"Gaitskill writes from the gut . . . [Her] characters bleed, sweat,
cry, and they experience sadness, anger and love as much as a
physical sensation as an emotion." -San Francisco
Chronicle
"Gaitskill''s style is gorgeously caustic . . . Her ability to
capture abstract feelings and sensations with a prescise and
unexpected metaphor is a squirmy delight to encounter in such
abundance." -Heidi Julavits, Pubishers Weekly
"[Veronica] creates an atmosphere, provokes a response,
and suffuses us with an emotion that we can easily, all too easily,
summon up. It''s art that you can continue to see even with your
eyes closed." -Francine Prose, Slate