Satire is lost on some people and this is the sort of book you can't explain to your mother. That's what Helen DeWitt found when she tried to publish it. On her website you can see quotes from agents and other supposedly literary people telling her the book is reputation ending, alongside one from her mother who (as if you needed telling) hates the book. I guess some people are moral in a way that precludes the possibility of standards and humour co-existing. Or maybe they just don't care enough about their principles to joke about them. Life is too important to be taken seriously, as Oscar said.
Lightning Rods, Helen DeWitt
Lightning Rods, Helen DeWitt
Lightning Rods, Helen DeWitt
Satire is lost on some people and this is the sort of book you can't explain to your mother. That's what Helen DeWitt found when she tried to publish it. On her website you can see quotes from agents and other supposedly literary people telling her the book is reputation ending, alongside one from her mother who (as if you needed telling) hates the book. I guess some people are moral in a way that precludes the possibility of standards and humour co-existing. Or maybe they just don't care enough about their principles to joke about them. Life is too important to be taken seriously, as Oscar said.