Alison, aging and ill, looks back on her life as a teenage fashion model in Paris and Rome, the crash of her career, and her move to New York where she met and formed a memorable friendship with the remarkable, eccentric Veronica, a woman suffering from AIDS.
year: 2006, 1961, 2005
call number/section: 1000
subjects: hippopotamus, juvenile fiction, individuality, fiction, humorous stories, fiction, fantasy
Editions
Duvoisin, Roger
Distributed by Random House (2006)
Veronica, a hippopotamus who is never noticed among all the other hippopotamuses, sets out to find a country where she can be conspicuous, but doesn't find the city much to her liking.
Schools: 0
Duvoisin, Roger
Knopf (1961)
A hippopotamus who is never noticed among all the other hippopotamuses sets out to find a country where she can be conspicuous, but finds city life not so great.
Schools: 4
Gaitskill, Mary
Vintage Books (2005)
Schools: 0
Gaitskill, Mary
Vintage Books (2005)
Alison, aging and ill, looks back on her life as a teenage fashion model in Paris and Rome, the crash of her career, and her move to New York where she met and formed a memorable friendship with the remarkable, eccentric Veronica, a woman suffering from AIDS.
Schools: 0
Gaitskill, Mary
Vintage Books (2005)
Alison, aging and ill, looks back on her life as a teenage fashion model in Paris and Rome, the crash of her career, and her move to New York where she met and formed a memorable friendship with the remarkable, eccentric Veronica, a woman suffering from AIDS.
Schools: 0