Lightning Rods: Shortlisted for the 2013 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction - Softcover

Helen DeWitt

 
9781908276117: Lightning Rods: Shortlisted for the 2013 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction

Synopsis

'All I want is to be a success. That's all I ask.' Failing salesman Joe has a dream - or rather an outrageous fantasy. Because holed up in his trailer Joe comes up with a jaw-dropping plan that will stamp out sexual harassment in the workplace and make his fortune. Win-win? As he turns his life around, Lightning Rods takes us to the very top of corporate America.

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About the Author

Helen DeWitt was born in Washington D.C. in 1957, but spent most of her childhood in South America. She has a B.A. and a D.Phil. in Classics from Oxford University. She worked in a collection of odd jobs while writing the highly acclaimed The Last Samurai, which was published in over twenty countries. Lightning Rods is her second novel to be published. DeWitt lives in Berlin.

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