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Book ID of the portable veblen #39 s Books is 25431238, Book which was written by elizabeth mckenzie which was published by penguin press . This Book which have certain number of Pages

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the portable veblen is a dazzlingly original novel that s as big hearted as it is laugh out loud funny set in and around palo alto amid the culture clash of new money and old antiestablishment values and with the specter of our current wars looming across its pages the portable veblen is an unforgettable look at the way we live now 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 tete a tete 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 as paul is swept up by the promise of fame and fortune veblen heroically keeps the peace between all the damaged parties involved in their upcoming wedding until she finds herself falling for someone or something else throughout elizabeth mckenzie asks where do our families end and we begin how do we stay true to our ideals and what is that squirrel really thinking replete with deadpan photos and sly appendices the portable veblen is at once an honest inquiry into what we look for in love and an electrifying reading experience

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