Model Behavior; An aging cover girl recalls a friend and a life lost in the fast lane.

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VERONICA

By Mary Gaitskill

Pantheon. 227 pp. $23

Mary Gaitskill's heroines often glide through the world as bemused recipients of attention. If they are cute, it's news to them. Alison, the narrator of Gaitskill's mesmerizing second novel, is different - - she was once beautiful, and (mostly) knew it. Alison treats beauty like a card you either hold or lack. Armored in attraction, you can access all areas; stripped of it, you can find yourself twitching crazily on the sidewalk, like the aging cover girl Alison describes early in the narrative. Where beauty leads you, and where it leaves ...

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