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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 A laugh-out-loud love story with big ideas - and squirrels Can squirrels speak? Do snails scream? Will a young couple, newly engaged, make it to their wedding day? Will their dysfunctional families ruin everything? Will they be undone by the advances of a very sexy, very unscrupulous heiress to a pharmaceuticals corporation? Is getting married even a remotely reasonable idea in the twenty-first century? And what in the world is a 'Veblen' anyway?
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The Portable Veblen, Elizabeth McKenzie
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- Released
- 2016
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- Title
- The Portable Veblen
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Elizabeth McKenzie
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1101981598
- ISBN13
- 9781101981597
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Humor, Love, Women, Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Romance, American Literature, Magical Realism, Heritage, Pharmacology, Medical Diagnosis
- First published
- 2016
- Original title
- The Portable Veblen
- Rating
- 3.5 out of 5
- Description
- SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 A laugh-out-loud love story with big ideas - and squirrels Can squirrels speak? Do snails scream? Will a young couple, newly engaged, make it to their wedding day? Will their dysfunctional families ruin everything? Will they be undone by the advances of a very sexy, very unscrupulous heiress to a pharmaceuticals corporation? Is getting married even a remotely reasonable idea in the twenty-first century? And what in the world is a 'Veblen' anyway?