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My Weil : a novel
- Title
- My Weil : a novel / Lars Iyer.
- Author
- Iyer, Lars
- Publication
- Brooklyn, New York : Melville House, 2023.
- ©2022
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 23-2003 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 341 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "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."--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Campus fiction.
- Fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 23-2003
- ISBN
- 1685890601
- 9781685890605
- OCLC
- 1354648535
- Author
- Iyer, Lars, author.
- Title
- My Weil : a novel / Lars Iyer.
- Publisher
- Brooklyn, New York : Melville House, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 23-2003