{"product_id":"benefit-paperback","title":"Benefit - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSiobhan Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA young woman discovers what lurks beneath the system that anointed her among the best and brightest of her generation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A smart, razor-sharp exploration of the precarious island of academic life and the cold unforgiving waters that surround it.\" --\u003cb\u003eJenny Offill\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eDept. of Speculation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWeather\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura, a student from a modest background, escapes her small town to join the ranks of the academic elite on a Weatherfield fellowship to study at Oxford University. She enthusiastically throws herself into her coursework, yet she is never able to escape a feeling of unease and dislocation among her fellow chosen \"students of promise and ambition.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYears later, back in the United States with a PhD and dissertation on Henry James, she loses her job as an adjunct professor and reconnects with the Weatherfield Foundation. Commissioned to write a history for its centennial, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBenefit\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid debut novel of personal awakening that offers a withering critique of toxic philanthropy and the American meritocracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSiobhan Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e is a Rhodes Scholar who studied English Literature at Yale and Oxford Universities and Poetry at the University of East Anglia before earning her PhD in English Language and Literature from Yale. Her writing has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAeon\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. An associate professor of English at Dickinson College, she lives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. \u003ci\u003eBenefit\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 19, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47252236271865,"sku":"9781942658993","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/dzVzeXMwZ3BzVXNsRVczdDlzT20rZz09.webp?v=1768684765","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/benefit-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}