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The Resource The portable Veblen : a novel, Elizabeth McKenzie
The portable Veblen : a novel, Elizabeth McKenzie
Resource Information
The item The portable Veblen : a novel, Elizabeth McKenzie represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item The portable Veblen : a novel, Elizabeth McKenzie represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- "A young couple on the brink of marriage the charming Veblen and her fiance 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (430 pages)
- Isbn
- 9780008160401
- Label
- The portable Veblen : a novel
- Title
- The portable Veblen
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Elizabeth McKenzie
- Subject
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- California
- California -- Fiction
- California -- Palo Alto
- Dysfunctional families
- Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
- Electronic books
- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Betrothal
- Medical instruments and apparatus -- Fiction
- Palo Alto (Calif.) -- Fiction
- Squirrels
- Squirrels -- Fiction
- Women translators
- Women translators -- Fiction
- Medical instruments and apparatus
- Betrothal -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A young couple on the brink of marriage the charming Veblen and her fiance 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- IDEBK
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1958-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- McKenzie, Elizabeth
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3613.C556
- LC item number
- P67 2016
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women translators
- Man-woman relationships
- Betrothal
- Squirrels
- Dysfunctional families
- Medical instruments and apparatus
- Palo Alto (Calif.)
- California
- Betrothal
- Dysfunctional families
- Man-woman relationships
- Medical instruments and apparatus
- Squirrels
- Women translators
- California
- California
- Label
- The portable Veblen : a novel, Elizabeth McKenzie
- Link
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn934770175
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (430 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780008160401
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
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- 887555
- 3C491FC2-23E7-4F18-8C2C-C83F0002320F
- 808A4F0B-6EF5-4851-AE11-89C89D5EA897
- System control number
- (OCoLC)934770175
- Label
- The portable Veblen : a novel, Elizabeth McKenzie
- Link
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn934770175
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (430 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780008160401
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
-
- 887555
- 3C491FC2-23E7-4F18-8C2C-C83F0002320F
- 808A4F0B-6EF5-4851-AE11-89C89D5EA897
- System control number
- (OCoLC)934770175
Subject
- California
- California -- Fiction
- California -- Palo Alto
- Dysfunctional families
- Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
- Electronic books
- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Betrothal
- Medical instruments and apparatus -- Fiction
- Palo Alto (Calif.) -- Fiction
- Squirrels
- Squirrels -- Fiction
- Women translators
- Women translators -- Fiction
- Medical instruments and apparatus
- Betrothal -- Fiction
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