The Portable Veblen: Shortlisted for the Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction 2016
English
By (author): Elizabeth McKenzie
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016
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 cant remember a book I enjoyed more Nina Stibbe
Seriously funny and extraordinarily well written Jonathan Franzen, Guardian books of the year
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