The Portable Veblen

Meet Veblen: a passionate defender of the anti-consumerist views of her name-sake, the iconoclastic economist Thorstein Veblen. Shes an experienced cheerer-upper (mainly of her narcissistic, hypochondriac, controlling mother), an amateur translator of Norwegian, and a firm believer in the distinct possibility that the plucky grey squirrel following her around can understand more than it lets on. Meet her fiancé, Paul: the son of good hippies who were bad parents, a no-nonsense, high-flying neuroscientist with no time for squirrels. His recent work on a device to minimize battlefield trauma has led him dangerously close to the seductive Cloris Hutmacher, heiress to a pharmaceuticals empire, who is promising him fame and fortune through a shady-sounding deal with the Department of Defence. What could possibly go wrong?

Summary

A laugh-out-loud love story with big ideas - and squirrelsSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth McKenzie
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.01.2016
• EAN: 9780008160630
• ISBN: 978-0-00-816063-0
• No. of pages: 422
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 215 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Fourth Estate
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature