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The Portable Veblen Elizabeth McKenzie

The Portable Veblen par Elizabeth McKenzie

The Portable Veblen Elizabeth McKenzie

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Résumé

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016

A riotously funny and deeply insightful adventure through capitalism, the medical industry, family, love, war and wedding-planning - from an electrically entertaining new voice

The Portable Veblen Résumé

The Portable Veblen: Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016 Elizabeth McKenzie

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016

A riotously funny and deeply insightful adventure through capitalism, the medical industry, family, love, war and wedding-planning - from an electrically entertaining new voice

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?

'Raw and weird and hilarious' Guardian

'A touching, wildly funny and peculiarly elegant look at the travails of love of all kinds' Sunday Express

'Elizabeth McKenzie is clearly some sort of genius' Paul Murray

'I can't remember a book I enjoyed more' Nina Stibbe

The Portable Veblen Avis

'The squirreliest novel I ever read. I enjoyed it completely' Ursula K. Le Guin

'Smart, funny, charming and profound. Elizabeth McKenzie is clearly some sort of genius' Paul Murray

'Raw and weird and hilarious . . . very entertaining' Scarlett Thomas, Guardian

'Ambitious, spirited, funny, daring' Financial Times

'Man oh man, do I love this book! Audacious, imaginative and totally wonderful' Karen Joy Fowler

'A touching, wildly funny and peculiarly elegant look at the travails of love of all kinds' Sunday Express

'Utterly charming. A true joy of a book' Irish Examiner

'Full of life and humour and compassion' Times Literary Supplement

'Witty and sharp' Irish Times

'Darkly funny, irrepressibly quirky and very, very hard to put down' Sam Baker, The Pool

'Quirky and smart. If you loved Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, you'll love this' Glamour

'Wildly brilliant. Razor-sharp, intimate, hilarious and profound. Every page is a delight' Emma Jane Unsworth

'Terrifically entertaining . . . hard to resist' Daily Mail

'Offbeat, thoughtful, mischievous . . . McKenzie [has] a pin-sharp eye for the tragic-comic, and for dialogue' Herald (Scotland)

'McKenzie has a wonderful eye - and a relishing appetite - for the craziness that is everywhere in ordinary life if you know how to look' Tessa Hadley

'A novel of festive originality' The New York Times

'Unforgettable. A wild ride that you will not want to miss' San Francisco Chronicle

'If The Portable Veblen has a flaw, it is that its caricatures are so on the nose as to make the reader hope to flee the human race' Boston Globe

'Oddball characters and plot turns abound, including talking squirrels and bureaucratic ironies worthy of Catch-22. But a sober question occupies its core: Do our parents' best intentions do us harm?' Minneapolis Star Tribune

'Accurately and funnily capture[s] the complexities of modern families . . . The Corrections meets The Wallcreeper' Huffington Post

À propos de Elizabeth McKenzie

Elizabeth McKenzie's work has appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR007267749
9780008160388
0008160384
The Portable Veblen: Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016 Elizabeth McKenzie
Elizabeth McKenzie
Occasion - Très bon état
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HarperCollins Publishers
20160128
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Short-listed for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016
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