The Portable Veblen

Author(s): Elizabeth McKenzie

General Fiction

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 A laugh-out-loud love story with big ideas - and squirrels 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?


Product Information

Shortlisted for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016.

Elizabeth McKenzie's work has appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. She received her MA from Stanford, was an assistant fiction editor at The Atlantic, and currently teaches creative writing at Stanford's school of continuing studies.

General Fields

  • : 9780008160395
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Australia
  • : Fourth Estate Ltd
  • : December 2016
  • : February 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Elizabeth McKenzie
  • : Paperback