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Lightning Rods

By: Helen DeWitt
Narrated by: Dushko Petrovich
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"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 he fails to sell a single Electrolux and must eat hundreds of pieces of homemade pie, served up by his would-be customers who feel so sorry for him. Holed up in his trailer, Joe finds an outlet his for frustrations in a series of ingenious sexual fantasies, and at last strikes gold. His brain storm, 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.

©2012 Helen DeWitt (P)2011 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Satire Comedy

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brilliant story perfectly read in a dry laconic style. Leaves you asking what else she's written!

brilliant story, perfectly read

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Very funny and thought-provoking. I thought Dushko’s reading style was perfect for this novel. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

An aptly named writer

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not for the easily offended or those of a prudish nature. I found myself regularly laughing out loud at the author's relentless logic.

a wonderfully transgressive satire

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