LEADER 00000cam a22002055a 4500 001 19917123 003 SE-LIBR 003 OCoLC 003 LT 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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