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02095aam a2200313 i 4500 001 14856CB2933C11EEBCD0C43545ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231205010040 008 221215t20232022nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1685890601 020 $a 9781685890605 035 $a (OCoLC)1354648535 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d GZD $d VP@ $d OCLCF $d SILO 043 $a e-uk-en 100 1 $a Iyer, Lars, $e author. 245 10 $a My Weil : $b a novel / $c Lars Iyer 264 1 $a Brooklyn, New York : $b Melville House, $c 2023. 300 $a 341 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "My Weil follows a group of twenty-something PhD students of the new-fangled subject Disaster Studies at an inferior university in Manchester, England, the post-industrial city of so much great music and culture. They're working class, by turns underconfident and grandiose (especially when they drink) and are reconciled to never finishing their dissertations or finding academic jobs. Their enemies? The drone-like Business Studies students, as well as the assured and serene PhD students at the posh university up the road. Into their midst arrives Simone Weil, a PhD student, a version of the twentieth century philosopher, who becomes the unlikely star of their film. Simone is devout, ascetic, intensely serious, and busy with risky charity work with the homeless. Valentine, hustler-philosopher, recognises Simone as a fellow would-be saint. But Gita, Indian posh-girl, is suspicious: what's with Simone's nun-shoes? And Marcie (AKA Den Mom), the leader of the pack, is too busy with her current infatuation, nicknamed Ultimate Destruction Girl, to notice."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Doctoral students $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Working class $z Manchester $z Manchester $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Philosophy $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Altruism $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Manchester (England) $v Fiction. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240502013454.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240402011807.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=14856CB2933C11EEBCD0C43545ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search