Veronica by Mary Gaitskill

This book didn't do it for me. The concept was good - the beautiful people decades later when they're old and haggard and wasted with STDs - but it lost my sympathy early on. The first part of the book deals with the protagonist's life as a young model, and it completely lost my sympathy because every decision she made was presented as something that happened to her, rather than an actual decision. That's a pet peeve of mine, both in fiction and in life, so it caused me to lose all sympathy for the book and finish reading it just for the purpose of getting to the end.