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LEADER: 02024nam a22003138i 4500
001 2015043056
003 DLC
005 20151104083740.0
008 151103s2016 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2015043056
020 $a9781594206856 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPS3613.C556$bP67 2016
082 00 $a813/.6$223
084 $aFIC019000$aFIC016000$aFIC044000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMcKenzie, Elizabeth,$d1958-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe Portable Veblen /$cElizabeth Mckenzie.
263 $a1601
264 1 $aNew York :$bPenguin Press,$c2016.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"A young couple on the brink of marriage--the charming Veblen and her fiancé Paul, a brilliant neurologist--find their engagement in danger of collapse. Along the way they weather everything from each other's dysfunctional families, to the attentions of a seductive pharmaceutical heiress, to an intimate tête-à-tête with a very charismatic squirrel. Veblen (named after the iconoclastic economist Thorstein Veblen, who coined the term "conspicuous consumption") is one of the most refreshing heroines in recent fiction. Not quite liberated from the burdens of her hypochondriac, narcissistic mother and her institutionalized father, Veblen is an amateur translator and "freelance self"; in other words, she's adrift. Meanwhile, Paul--the product of good hippies who were bad parents--finds his ambition soaring. His medical research has led to the development of a device to help minimize battlefield brain trauma--an invention that gets him swept up in a high-stakes deal with the Department of Defense, a Bizarro World that McKenzie satirizes with granular specificity"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Humorous.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Contemporary Women.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$u9781594206856.jpg