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Book:Name: Lars Iyer - My Weil (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
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Description:Title: My Weil
Author: Lars Iyer
Language: English
Year: 2022
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Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: N/A
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Download from RapidGator"Memorable characters make this a singular exploration of the human condition." - Publishers Weekly
A scathingly funny look at a group of quirky graduate students majoring in Disaster Studies who are forced to reconsider their cynicism when they confront a new student who, remarkably, has the same name as the 20th Century Catholic mystic philosopher Simone Weil ...
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 immediate enemies are the drone-like Business Studies students all around them, as well as the assured and serene PhD students of the posh university up the road. And they're working together...
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