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Stories spanning over a century from the life of TJ 'Jim' McKenzie, his family, friends and people along the way, from the 1890s to 2020s. Recollections of growing up near Longreach CQ from the mid-1930s, early boarding school to National Service, life on sheep stations to meeting Princesses. From sheep shearing to pen pushing. From rural living and working to city life and raising a family from the mid-60s. Jim experienced early tragedy and u...

Penny Rush hat diverse Probleme: Ihre Ehe ist gescheitert, sie hat ihren Job gekündigt, ihre Mutter und ihr Stiefvater sind vor fünf Jahren im australischen Outback verschollen und ihre Großmutter verliert langsam, aber sicher den Verstand. Ihr bleibt keine Wahl: Sie macht sich auf den Weg, sich um sämtliche Notfälle in ihrer Familie zu kümmern. Wir begleiten Penny auf einem Roadtrip quer durch Kalifornien in einem alten meeresgrünen Van namen...

* A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * “A vibrant novel that combines slapstickcomedy with poignancy.” —The New YorkerPenny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over, she’s quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago, her mentally unbalanced father provokes her, her grandmother Dr. Pincer keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso ...

Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over, she's quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago, her mentally unbalanced father provokes her, her grandmother, Dr. Pincer, keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso at what's possible when all else fails. There will be a road trip in the Dog of the North, an old van with gingham curtains, a...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023The darkly comic new novel from the bestselling author of The Portable Veblen

From the National Book Award-longlisted author of The Portable VeblenPenny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over, she's quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago, her mentally unbalanced father provokes her, her grandmother Dr. Pincer keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso at what's possible when all else fails. Elizabeth McKenzie,...

The darkly comic new novel from the bestselling, Women's Prize shortlisted author of The Portable Veblen

The darkly comic new novel from the bestselling, Women's Prize shortlisted author of The Portable Veblen

Palo Alto, Kalifornien: Veblen, die sich als Übersetzerin aus dem Norwegischen versucht, und Paul, ein brillanter Neurologe, wollen heiraten - sämtlichen ideologischen (Ist die Ehe noch zeitgemäß?) und philosophischen (Wie kann man jemanden lieben, der keine Maiskolben mag?) Einwänden zum Trotz. Wäre da nur nicht der Streit um das Eichhörnchen, das in Veblens Garten haust. Oder diese dubiose medizinische Veteranen-Studie, die Paul leitet. Ganz...

Meet Veblen: a passionate defender of the anti-consumerist views of her name-sake, the iconoclastic economist Thorstein Veblen. She's an experienced cheerer-upper (mainly of her narcissistic, hypochondriac, controlling mother), an amateur translator of Norwegian, and a firm believer in the distinct possibility that the plucky grey squirrel following her around can understand more than it lets on.Meet her fiancé, Paul: the son of good hippies w...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 and the National Book Award 2016. A riotously funny and deeply insightful adventure through capitalism, the medical industry, family, love, war and wedding-planning - from an electrically entertaining new voice 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...

The highly acclaimed author of Stop That Girl delivers a masterfully plotted debut novel-at once a mystery of identity, sly literary satire, and coming-of age story-capturing a young man's impossible and heroic first love.Twenty-two-year-old MacGregor West, orphaned as a boy, is on a quest: to understand the circumstances of his mother's untimely death. On a foggy San Francisco evening, guided by an old stack of envelopes, Mac finds himself at...

De draagbare Veblen speelt zich af in Palo Alto, Californië, een strijdperk waar old school antiautoritaire types de degens kruisen met het nieuwe geld van snelle wetenschappers en Silicon Valley-types. Veblen is net ten huwelijk gevraagd door de briljante neurowetenschapper Paul, en dat terwijl ze elkaar nog maar drie maanden kennen. Maar hun verloving wankelt al meteen. Veblen, amateurvertaalster uit het Noors, 'freelance zelf' en liefhebber...

Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for FictionFinalist for the Baileys Prize for Women's FictionAn exuberant, one-of-a-kind novel about love and family, war and nature, new money and old values by a brilliant New Yorker contributor The Portable Veblen is a dazzlingly original novel that's as big-hearted as it is laugh-out-loud funny. Set in and around Palo Alto, amid the culture clash of new money and old (antiestablishment) values, ...

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From the start of Elizabeth McKenzie's beguiling fiction debut, we are drawn into the offbeat worldview of sharp-eyed, intrepid Ann Ransom. Stop That Girl chronicles Ann's colorful coming-of-age travails, from her childhood in a disjointed family through her tender adolescence and beyond. Along the way, she discovers the absurdities that lurk around every corner of a young woman's life, by way of oafish neighbors, overzealous boyfriends, pruri...