Along the way they weather everything from each other's dysfunctional families to the attentions of a seductive pharmaceutical heiress to an intimate tete-a-tete with a very charismatic squirrel. 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 words, The Portable Veblen is an unforgettable look at the way we live now.Ī young couple on the brink of marriage - the charming Veblen and her fiancé, Paul, a brilliant neurologist - find their engagement in danger of collapse. The Portable Veblen is a dazzlingly original novel that's as big-hearted as it is laugh-out-loud funny. An exuberant, one-of-a-kind novel about love and family, war and nature, new money and old values by a brilliant New Yorker contributor.
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