The Portable Veblen : Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016 Paperback / softback
by Elizabeth McKenzie
Paperback / softback
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A laugh-out-loud love story with big ideas - and squirrels 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 can't 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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- Pages:448 pages
- Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication Date:19/01/2016
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- ISBN:9780008160630
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:448 pages
- Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication Date:19/01/2016
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- ISBN:9780008160630