The Portable Veblen: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (739 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1594206856 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Disconnect. I found the main characters hard to connect with. I didn't have any real feelings for them except at times annoyance. The last third of the book is when I finally started to feel a connection.. gerryb said I did enjoy reading it though for its vivid imagination and strange. Begins by being "quirky" in a really charming, but ends up a bit cloying. I did enjoy reading it though for its vivid imagination and strange humor. "It's A Little Squirrelly" according to RunSueRun. The writing is quite good - smart but not cumbersome, like so many monolithic novels of late. The plotline is clever enough - it is much more thematically than just a couple of It's A Little Squirrelly The writing is quite good - smart but not cumbersome, like so many monolithic novels of late. The plotline is clever enough - it is much more thematically than just a couple of 30-somethings overcoming dysfunctional upbringings to find love. The characters all have some redeeming qualities, as does the ending. And there were some truly funny moments - I'm not sure I would say "laugh out loud moments, but definitely chuckle moments. In theory I feel like this should be a It's A Little Squirrelly RunSueRun The writing is quite good - smart but not cumbersome, like so many monolithic novels of late. The plotline is clever enough - it is much more thematically than just a couple of 30-somethings overcoming dysfunctional upbringings to find love. The characters all have some redeeming qualities, as does the ending. And there were some truly funny moments - I'm not sure I would say "laugh out loud moments, but definitely chuckle moments. In theory I feel like this should be a 4 or 5 star book! And yet I feel a little "meh" at the same time. Maybe there was just a little TOO much family dysfunction and zaniness, and maybe I am just. or 5 star book! And yet I feel a little "meh" at the same time. Maybe there was just a little TOO much family dysfunction and zaniness, and maybe I am just. 0-somethings overcoming dysfunctional upbringings to find love. The characters all have some redeeming qualities, as does the ending. And there were some truly funny moments - I'm not sure I would say "laugh out loud moments, but definitely chuckle moments. In theory I feel like this should be a It's A Little Squirrelly RunSueRun The writing is quite good - smart but not cumbersome, like so many monolithic novels of late. The plotline is clever enough - it is much more thematically than just a couple of 30-somethings overcoming dysfunctional upbringings to find love. The characters all have some redeeming qualities, as does the ending. And there were some truly funny moments - I'm not sure I would say "laugh out loud moments, but definitely chuckle moments. In theory I feel like this should be a 4 or 5 star book! And yet I feel a little "meh" at the same time. Maybe there was just a little TOO much family dysfunction and zaniness, and maybe I am just. or 5 star book! And yet I feel a little "meh" at the same time. Maybe there was just a little TOO much family dysfunction and zaniness, and maybe I am just
. Elizabeth McKenzie is the author of a collection, Stop That Girl, short-listed for The Story Prize, and the novel MacGregor Tells the World, a Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle and Library Journal Best Book of the year. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the Pushca
Along the way they weather everything from each other’s dysfunctional families, to the attentions of a seductive pharmaceutical heiress, to an intimate tête-à-tête with a very charismatic squirrel. Meanwhile, Paul—the product of good hippies who were bad parents—finds his ambition soaring. Throughout, Elizabeth McKenzie asks: Where do our families end and we begin? How do we stay true to our ideals? And what is that squirrel really thinking? Replete with deadpan photos and sly appendices, The Portable Veblen is at once an honest inquiry into what we look for in love and an electrifying reading experience.. His medical research has led to the development of a device to help minimize battlefield brain trauma—an invention that gets him swept up in a high-stakes deal with the Department of Defense, a Bizarro World that McKenzie satirizes with gr
Mouse State Judge and See Through“The Portable Veblen is a funny, modern love story, but also the story of everything that comes before love, its dark prerequisites and murky prequels…A wonderfully insane novel with talking squirrels and lunatic parents and comedic plot twists…populated by some of the most real, fully written characters I've met on any page. McKenzie’s ear is not her only asset. President“The Portable Veblen is an authentically strange—and genuinely funny—depiction of how the dysfunctions of childhood stubbornly follow us into adulthood.”-Teddy Wayne, author of The Love Song of Jonny Valentine and Kapitoil "Only Elizabeth McKenzie could make a novel—a