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The Portable Veblen

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


Author:

  • Elizabeth McKenzie

Narrator:

  • Laurence Bouvard

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 11 h 32 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Fiction
  • Comedic fiction

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    Elizabeth McKenzie’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.

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