Lightning Rods Fiction and making do with the

and making do with the rise and fall of market economies that determine so much of their fate

a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice

there is a powerful caste system that influences people's lives and behavior and the nation's fate

Author: Susan Daitch

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Lightning Rods Fiction and making do with theTitle: Lightning Rods Author: Helen DeWitt ISBN: 9780811220347 Publisher: New Directions Published: 2012 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: Reprint Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: Described as "the most well executed literary sex comedy" of our time by Salon. com, and "a wickedly smart satire that deserves to be a classic" by Bookforum, Helen DeWitt's Lighting Rods is a novel that will leave you laughing for