The portable Veblen : a novel
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The portable Veblen : a novel
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The work The portable Veblen : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- The portable Veblen : a novel
- 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"--
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- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- IDEBK
- 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
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