{"product_id":"lightning-rods-9780811219433","title":"Lightning Rods","description":"\"All I want is to be a success. That's all I ask.\" Joe fails to sell a single set of the Encyclopedia Britannica in six months. Then fails to sell a single Electrolux and must eat 126 pieces of homemade pie, served up by his would-be customers who feel sorry for him. Holed up in his trailer, Joe finds an outlet for his frustrations in a series of ingenious sexual fantasies, and at last strikes gold. His brainstorm, Lightning Rods, Inc., will take Joe to the very top -- and to the very heart of corporate insanity -- with an outrageous solution to the spectre of sexual harassment in the modern office.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An uproarious, hard-boiled modern fable of corporate life, sex, and race in America, Helen DeWitt's \u003cem\u003eLightning Rods\u003c\/em\u003e brims with the satiric energy of Nathanael West and the philosophic import of an Aristophanic comedy of ideas. Her wild yarn is second cousin to the spirit of Mel Brooks and the hilarious reality-blurring of \u003cem\u003eBeing John Malkovich\u003c\/em\u003e. Dewitt continues to take the novel into new realms of storytelling -- as the timeliness of \u003cem\u003eLightning Rods\u003c\/em\u003e crosses over into timelessness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811219433\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.09h x 5.70w x 1.13d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2011 pg. 67\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2011 pg. 25\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/07\/2011 pg. 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/13\/2011 pg. 44\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Helen DeWitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51445522464949,"sku":"9780811219433","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_d3167b8e-56b0-4b2f-b89a-23cb1b58985e.jpg?v=1753798814","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/lightning-rods-9780811219433","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}