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by Elizabeth Mckenzie

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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 fianc? 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 t?te-?-t?te 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

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