". . . a queer gem of a book... wonderful, literary, sexy, funny . . , by turns mystifying, hilarious, admirable, and always hard to put down . . ."
Vera is one of CURVE Magazine's
We're not in 1999 anymore. Vera has finally come out.
Pocket Books rejected Vera for being "too literary, on one hand, and too sexy on the other," while Clifford Chase calls it, "A new kind of novel: a love story of ideas, a lyrical romp, a faux mystery with genuine heart.”
Part Don Quixote bubbling dreamer, part reckless detective, the narrator of Vera pilots her way through a murky urban terrain, in search of love and answers. What she discovers, in a 1990’s San Francisco stuck somewhere between AIDS and 9/11, is not what she set out to find.
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Witness Vera's Dazzling Rejections
Absolutely superb, sexy, captivating . . . W.W. Norton & Company
An accomplished and inventive writer who knows what she is doing . . . I would guess there is a readership hungry for this book . . . Henry Holt and Company, Inc.
A very sexy, charming writer . . . Farrar, Straus & Giroux Glancy's an original, and writes with a great deal of energy and verve. . .Riverhead Books |
The narrative voice is fantastic -- strong and funny. This novel deserves attention. Macmillan, U.K.
Vera is a wild ride, and Gabrielle Glancy writes with great energy and heat . . . Knopf An assured debut . . . Bloomsbury, London Vera is truly one of the most inventive novels I have ever read . . . Penguin Putnam, Inc. I have to say -- and you're calling my true colors now -- I think this manuscript sizzles too much for us to take on. Sorry to be such a prude. Houghton Mifflin I read it all in one sitting last Saturday. Gabrielle Glancy is an enormously talented writer with a wonderful voice. Unfortunately, I think Vera is too literary for us, on one hand, and too sexy on the other. Pocket Books
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