The Portable Veblen Elizabeth McKenzie
The Portable Veblen Elizabeth McKenzie A laugh-out-loud love story with big ideas - and squirrelsSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 Can squirrels speak? Will a young couple,…
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The Portable Veblen Elizabeth McKenzie
A laugh-out-loud love story with big ideas - and squirrelsSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 Can squirrels speak? Will a young couple, newly engaged, make it to their wedding day? Do snails scream?
Will they be undone by the advances of a very sexy, very unscrupulous heiress to a pharmaceuticals corporation? Will their dysfunctional families ruin everything? Is getting married even a remotely reasonable idea in the twenty-first century?
And what in the world is a 'Veblen' anyway? 'Raw and weird and hilarious' Guardian 'A touching, wildly funny and peculiarly elegant look at the travails of love of all kinds' Sunday Express 'Elizabeth McKenzie is clearly some sort of genius' Paul Murray 'I can't remember a book I enjoyed more' NinaStibbe 'Seriously funny and extraordinarily well written' JonathanFranzen, Guardian books of the year.