The portable Veblen / Elizabeth McKenzie.
Publication details: London : Fourth Estate, 2016.Description: 422 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780008160630
- 9780008160388 (hardcover)
- Medical instruments and apparatus
- Humorous fiction
- Squirrels
- Women translators
- Humorous fiction
- Betrothal
- Dysfunctional families
- Man-woman relationships
- Women translators -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Betrothal -- Fiction
- Squirrels -- Fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
- Medical instruments and apparatus -- Fiction
- California
- California -- Palo Alto
- Palo Alto (Calif.) -- Fiction
- California -- Fiction
- 813/.6 23
- PS3613.C556 P67 2016
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | MACK | Available | 064609 |
Includes bibliographical references.
Machine generated contents note: 1.End the Attachment! -- 2.Sauerkraut and Mace -- 3.News Is Marketing -- 4.Nothing About You Is Bad -- 5.Plight of the Bookworm -- 6.Art Is Despair with Dignity -- 7.Releasing the Tool -- 8.Eight Knots -- 9.The Stoic Glacier Method -- 10.War Cash -- 11.The Speechless Others -- 12.The Passenger Years -- 13.The Animal Rule -- 14.The Nutkinistas -- 15.I Melt with You -- 16.Never the Same Again -- 17.Offense Is Mandatory -- 18.The CURS -- 19.Maybe Yes, Maybe No -- 20.Something Bad Must Have Happened -- 21.Can You Patent the Sun? -- 22.The Man-Squirrel Debate -- 23.Hello in There -- 24.Doomed to Wonder -- 25.The Cyborg -- 26.We Can Be Together -- 27.See for Yourself.
Set in and around Palo Alto, amid the culture clash of new money and old (anti-establishment) values,this book 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.