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title: "Lightning Rods"
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# Lightning Rods

**Price:** WS$108
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- **What is this?** Lightning Rods
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## Description

The long-awaited second novel by the author of “arguably the most exciting debut novel of the decade: The Last Samurai .” (Sam Anderson, New York ). “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. An uproarious, hard-boiled modern fable of corporate life, sex, and race in America, Helen DeWitt’s Lightning Rods 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 Being John Malkovich . Dewitt continues to take the novel into new realms of storytelling — as the timeliness of Lightning Rods crosses over into timelessness.

Review: delightful! - Amusing, insightful, surprising, reassuringly ordinary, dialectic…a model for salesmen everywhere, business acumen, broadly sympathetic, not to mention a key bit of advice for lobbyists with legislative friends
Review: Probably offensive but very funny - The beginning is definitely raunchy but as the story progresses it becomes less so, although possibly just as offensive, as it goes from the sexual, to the feminist, to the physically impaired and ending with the religious. The conceit of the story is of another business success: in a very straight faced manner, the author ridicules the business management stories constantly being published, by presenting a story of outrageous business initiatives. I would recommended this book for all those tired of reading management & business success books.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #759,514 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #1,308 in Fiction Satire #1,381 in Literary Satire Fiction #1,559 in Satire |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ delightful!
*by D***E on June 21, 2026*

Amusing, insightful, surprising, reassuringly ordinary, dialectic…a model for salesmen everywhere, business acumen, broadly sympathetic, not to mention a key bit of advice for lobbyists with legislative friends

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Probably offensive but very funny
*by E***E on December 13, 2012*

The beginning is definitely raunchy but as the story progresses it becomes less so, although possibly just as offensive, as it goes from the sexual, to the feminist, to the physically impaired and ending with the religious. The conceit of the story is of another business success: in a very straight faced manner, the author ridicules the business management stories constantly being published, by presenting a story of outrageous business initiatives. I would recommended this book for all those tired of reading management & business success books.

### ⭐⭐⭐ Raunchy and hilarious
*by J***Y on August 8, 2015*

Caught me totally off guard but the tone and the story—dealing with a subject that should come across as totally juvenile—but ended up both being a pretty great social commentary with a generous dose of humor. The end is a little flat but the ride leading there is totally worth it.

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*Last updated: 2026-11-01*