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As Veblen and Paul struggle to make it to their wedding day in one piece, they grapple with staying true to their ideals in life and work, dealing with dysfunctional parents, a seductive pharmaceutical heiress, and a very charismatic squirrel. "A dazzlingly original novel about love and family, war and nature, set amid a California culture clash of new money and antiestablishment values." -- provided by publisher.
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W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Lyndon Song, a renowned New York sculptor who gave up his art career to move to California and become a Brussels sprouts farmer, finds his new life threatened by a golf course developer who wants to buy his land, and his brother Woody, a movie producer who, unbeknownst to Lyndon, has been hired by the developer.
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English
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"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--Provided by publisher.
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The Dial Press
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[2019]
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English
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"P.R. Chandrasekhar, the celebrated professor of economics at Cambridge, is at a turning point. He has sacrificed his family for his career, but his conservative brand of economics is no longer in fashion, and yet again he has lost the Nobel Prize to a rival. His wife has left him for a free spirited West Coast psychiatrist and relocated to Boulder, Colorado. His son, a capitalist guru with a cult following, mocks his father's life work; his middle...
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