Gadsby (Summarized Edition)

Gadsby is a civic-minded novel chronicling how John Gadsby marshals the youth of Branton Hills to revive a sleepy American town, culminating in his election as mayor. Its most audacious feature is formal: a 50,000-word lipogram that entirely omits the letter 'e', forcing a prose of periphrasis, inventive synonymy, and syntactic detours. The result is a curious blend of boosterish municipal narrati...