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02003aam a2200325 i 4500 001 2407DC76E17011EC82262A731FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220601010025 008 210709s2022 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2021033503 020 $a 1942658990 020 $a 9781942658993 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3616.H473 $b B46 2022 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Phillips, Siobhan, $d 1978- $e author. 245 10 $a Benefit / $c Siobhan Phillips. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Bellevue Literary Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 315 pages ; $c 21 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "Laura, a brilliant student and promising scholar, escapes from her small town, working class background to join the ranks of the academic elite on a Weatherfield scholarship to Oxford University. She enthusiastically throws herself into her schoolwork, yet she is never able to escape a feeling of unease and dislocation among the anointed "best and brightest" of her generation. Years later, back in the U.S. with a Ph.D. in Henry James studies, she loses her job as an adjunct professor and reconnects with the Weatherfield Foundation. Commissioned to write a history for their gala reunion, she becomes obsessed by the Gilded Age origins of the Weatherfield fortune, rooted in the exploitation and misery of sugar production. As she is lured back into abandoned friendships within the glimmering group, she discovers hidden aspects of herself and others that point the way to a terrifying freedom. BENEFIT is a gripping coming-of-age story that offers a withering critique of American meritocracy"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Women college teachers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Conduct of life $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Avarice $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 1 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220601010245.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2407DC76E17011EC82262A731FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search