The Portable Veblen
Author: McKenzie, Elizabeth
ISBN: 9780008160395
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 448
Dimensions: 196mm x 130mm x 31mm
Format: Paperback / softback
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?
ISBN: 9780008160395
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 448
Dimensions: 196mm x 130mm x 31mm
Format: Paperback / softback
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?
