The Portable Veblen: Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2016. Elizabeth McKenzie
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Название: The Portable Veblen: Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2016

Автор: Elizabeth McKenzie

Издательство: HarperCollins

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isbn: 9780008160401

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       Copyright

      Fourth Estate

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      First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2016

      First published in the United States by Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC in 2016

      Copyright © Elizabeth McKenzie 2016

      Elizabeth McKenzie asserts the right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A portion of this book appeared in The Atlantic

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008160388

      Ebook Edition © OCTOBER 2015 ISBN: 9780008160401

      Version: 2018-09-26

       Dedication

       For James Ross Cox

       Epigraph

      “If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.”

      —​G. W. CARVER

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       5. PLIGHT OF THE BOOKWORM

       6. ART IS DESPAIR WITH DIGNITY

       7. RELEASING THE TOOL

       8. EIGHT KNOTS

       9. THE STOIC GLACIER METHOD

       10. WAR CASH

       11. THE SPEECHLESS OTHERS

       12. THE PASSENGER YEARS

       13. THE ANIMAL RULE

       14. THE NUTKINISTAS

       15. I MELT WITH YOU

       16. NEVER THE SAME AGAIN

       17. OFFENSE IS MANDATORY

       18. THE CURS

       19. MAYBE YES, MAYBE NO

       20. SOMETHING BAD MUST HAVE HAPPENED

       21. CAN YOU PATENT THE SUN?

       22. THE MAN-SQUIRREL DEBATE

       23. HELLO IN THERE

       24. DOOMED TO WONDER

       25. THE CYBORG

       26. WE CAN BE TOGETHER

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