Shortlisted for the Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction 2016
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Köp båda 2 för 262 krMan oh man, do I love this book! Audacious, imaginative and totally wonderful Karen Joy Fowler I cant remember a book I enjoyed more Nina Stibbe 'Smart, funny, charming and profound. Elizabeth McKenzie is clearly some sort of genius Paul Murray The squirreliest novel I ever read. I enjoyed it completely Ursula K. Le Guin Raw and weird and hilarious . . . very entertaining Scarlett Thomas, Guardian Ambitious, spirited, funny, daring Financial Times A touching, wildly funny and peculiarly elegant look at the travails of love of all kinds Sunday Express Utterly charming. A true joy of a book Irish Examiner Full of life and humour and compassion Times Literary Supplement Darkly funny, irrepressibly quirky and very, very hard to put down Sam Baker, The Pool Quirky and smart. If you loved Karen Joy Fowlers We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, youll love this Glamour Wildly brilliant. Razor-sharp, intimate, hilarious and profound. Every page is a delight Emma Jane Unsworth Terrifically entertaining . . . hard to resist Daily Mail Offbeat, thoughtful, mischievous . . . McKenzie [has] a pin-sharp eye for the tragic-comic, and for dialogue Herald (Scotland) A novel of festive originality The New York Times Unforgettable. A wild ride that you will not want to miss San Francisco Chronicle If The Portable Veblen has a flaw, it is that its caricatures are so on the nose as to make the reader hope to flee the human race Boston Globe Oddball characters and plot turns abound, including talking squirrels and bureaucratic ironies worthy of "Catch-22." But a sober question occupies its core: Do our parents' best intentions do us harm? Minneapolis Star Tribune Accurately and funnily capture[s] the complexities of modern families . . . The Corrections meets The Wallcreeper Huffington Post
Elizabeth McKenzies 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 Stanfords school of continuing studies.