Helen DeWitt
Helen DeWitt is best known for her acclaimed debut novel, The Last Samurai. She held a variety of jobs while struggling to finish a book, including a dictionary text tagger, a copytaker, Dunkin’ Donuts employee, and working in a laundry service. During this time she reportedly attempted to finish many novels, before finally completing The Last Samurai, her 50th manuscript, in 1998. She has since written several other novels. She lives in Berlin.
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Lightning Rods
- By: Helen DeWitt
- Narrator: Dushko Petrovich
- Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 25, 2011
- Language: English
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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... Read more
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