“All I want is to be a success. That’s all I ask.” Joe had once failed to sell a single set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in six months. He had once sold a single Electrolux and eaten 126 pieces of homemade pie in a time frame where most salesmen would hope to reverse the ratio of vacuum cleaners to pie. Holed up in his trailer, Joe finds outlet for frustration in a series of ingenious fantasies and at last strikes gold. Lightning Rods, Inc. will improve the lives of millions of Americans, offering an unorthodox solution to the spectre of sexual harassment in the modern office. |
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Lightning Rods is one of the funniest, most unlikely, and most pleasurable novels I have ever read. Savagely funny and wilfully provocative, Lightning Rods sees Helen DeWitt let her
| October 2011 Editor: Jeffrey Yang |