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003    OCoLC 
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008    161130s2016    xxu|||||||||||00| 1|eng c 
020    9781594206856 
041 0  swe 
082 04 813.6|223 swe 
084    Heq|2kssb/8 
092 0  Roman|bengelska 
100 1  McKenzie, Elizabeth |d1958- 
245 10 The Portable Veblen /|cElizabeth McKenzie 
264    New York : |bPENGUIN PRESS,|c2016 
300    448 s. ;|c3.3 cm 
500    Originalupplaga 2016 
520    "A young couple on the brink of marriage--the charming 
       Veblen and her fiancé 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"--|cProvided by publisher 
650  0 Women translators|vFiction 
650  0 Man-woman relationships|vFiction 
650  0 Betrothal|vFiction 
650  0 Squirrels|vFiction 
650  0 Dysfunctional families|vFiction 
650  0 Medical instruments and apparatus|vFiction 
650  7 FICTION|xLiterary.|2bisacsh 
651  0 Palo Alto (Calif.)|vFiction 
651  0 California|vFiction 
655  7 Domestic fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Humorous fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Skönlitteratur|2saogf 
655  7 Romaner|2saogf 
907 00 170103 
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