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Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction Finalist for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction An exuberant, one-of-a-kind novel about love and family, war and nature, new money and old values by a brilliant New Yorker contributor The Portable Veblen is a dazzlingly original novel that's as big-hearted as it is laugh-out-loud funny. Set in and around Palo Alto, amid the culture clash of new money and old (antiestablishment) values, and with the specter of our current wars looming across its pages, The Portable Veblen is an unforgettable look at the way we live now. A young couple on the brink of marriage--the charming Veblen and her fianc Paul, a brilliant neurologist--find their engagement in danger of collapse. Along the way they weather everything from each other's dysfunctional families, to the attentions of a seductive pharmaceutical heiress, to an intimate t te- -t te with a very charismatic squirrel. Veblen (named after the iconoclastic economist Thorstein Veblen, who coined the term "conspicuous consumption") is one of the most refreshing heroines in recent fiction. Not quite liberated from the burdens of her hypochondriac, narcissistic mother and her institutionalized father, Veblen is an amateur translator and "freelance self"; in other words, she's adrift. Meanwhile, Paul--the product of good hippies who were bad parents--finds his ambition soaring. His medical research has led to the development of a device to help minimize battlefield brain trauma--an invention that gets him swept up in a high-stakes deal with the Department of Defense, a Bizarro World that McKenzie satirizes with granular specificity. As Paul is swept up by the promise of fame and fortune, Veblen heroically keeps the peace between all the damaged parties involved in their upcoming wedding, until she finds herself falling for someone--or something--else. Throughout, Elizabeth McKenzie asks: Where do our families end and we begin? How do we stay true to our ideals? And what is that squirrel really thinking? Replete with deadpan photos and sly appendices, The Portable Veblen is at once an honest inquiry into what we look for in love and an electrifying reading experience.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594206856
ISBN-13
9781594206856
eBay Product ID (ePID)
211708301
Product Key Features
Book Title
Portable Veblen : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Contemporary Women, Literary, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.6in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
19.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3613.C556p67 2016
Reviews
Advance Praise for Elizabeth McKenzie's The Portable Veblen Abraham Verghese , New York Times bestselling author o f Cutting for Stone: "A clever morality tale set against the verdant paradise of Palo Alto. McKenzie's story of an ambitious young neurologist and the seductions of the darker side of the medical economy is both incisive and hilarious." Karen Joy Fowler, PEN Faulkner winner for We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves : "Man oh man, do I love this book! I have never read anything like it. I can't believe how funny it is given that we're dealing at times with pharmaceutical fraud, irreparable brain injury, and comatose veterans. (Family dysfunction, on the other hand, is always funny)... Audacious, imaginative, and totally wonderful: The whole books zips and zings." Praise for Elizabeth McKenzie's Stop That Girl Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteredge : "Vibrant and clear, these connected stories present a portrait of a family whose members are funny and hurtful and real, and watching them touched by time and change is very affecting. There is a lovely expansiveness here; surrounding the humor is the recognition that life is a serious deal." The New York Times Book Review : "McKenzie is an accomplished humorist and a developed stylist, and she wastes no time dazzling the reader with her clean direct language, her simple but searing use of metaphor and her unflinching eye. The paragraphs are put together with razor sharp concision, and the book is rich in both narrative and linguistic surprise. An original." Praise for Elizabeth McKenzie Jane Hamilton, author of The Book of Ruth and The Map of the World : "A wonderful talent." Tessa Hadley, author of Married Love and Accidents in the Home : "McKenzie has a wonderful eye - and a relishing appetite - for the craziness that is everywhere in ordinary things if you know how to look."
Copyright Date
2016
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2015-043056
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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