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A riotously funny and deeply insightful adventure through capitalism, the medical industry, family, love, war and wedding-planning - from an electrically entertaining new voice Meet Veblen: a passionate defender of the anti-consumerist views of her name-sake, the iconoclastic economist Thorstein Veblen. She's an experienced cheerer-upper (mainly of her narcissistic, hypochondriac, controlling mother), an amateur translator of Norwegian, and a firm believer in the distinct possibility that the plucky grey squirrel following her around can understand more than it lets on. Meet her fiancé, Paul: the son of good hippies who were bad parents, a no-nonsense, high-flying neuroscientist with no time for squirrels. His recent work on a device to minimize battlefield trauma has led him dangerously close to the seductive Cloris Hutmacher, heiress to a pharmaceuticals empire, who is promising him fame and fortune through a shady-sounding deal with the Department of Defence. What could possibly go wrong?
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The Portable Veblen, Elizabeth McKenzie
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2016
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- Titolo
- The Portable Veblen
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Elizabeth McKenzie
- Pubblicato
- 2016
- Formato
- In brossura
- ISBN10
- 0008160635
- ISBN13
- 9780008160630
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Letteratura romantica, Umorismo, Narrativa contemporanea, Amore, Donne, Romance contemporaneo, Letteratura Americana, Realismo magico, Eredità, Farmacologia, Diagnosi medica
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2016
- Titolo originale
- The Portable Veblen
- Valutazione
- 3,5 su 5
- Descrizione
- A riotously funny and deeply insightful adventure through capitalism, the medical industry, family, love, war and wedding-planning - from an electrically entertaining new voice Meet Veblen: a passionate defender of the anti-consumerist views of her name-sake, the iconoclastic economist Thorstein Veblen. She's an experienced cheerer-upper (mainly of her narcissistic, hypochondriac, controlling mother), an amateur translator of Norwegian, and a firm believer in the distinct possibility that the plucky grey squirrel following her around can understand more than it lets on. Meet her fiancé, Paul: the son of good hippies who were bad parents, a no-nonsense, high-flying neuroscientist with no time for squirrels. His recent work on a device to minimize battlefield trauma has led him dangerously close to the seductive Cloris Hutmacher, heiress to a pharmaceuticals empire, who is promising him fame and fortune through a shady-sounding deal with the Department of Defence. What could possibly go wrong?