On a date, a character in this novel plays a record to prove that he is a disc jockey “you prob’ly must have heard of” named Lenny Shepherd. After a blind date gone wrong in this novel, a character throws her new wardrobe off the roof of a hotel. Some characters in this novel are sent a copy of The Thirty Best Short Stories of the Year after they all get food poisoning from (*) crabmeat-stuffed (10[1])avocados. This novel’s protagonist meets the simultaneous interpreter Constantine during “the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs” while working as an intern at Ladies’ Day Magazine in New York. Esther Greenwood feels trapped inside the title object in, for 10 points, what only novel by Sylvia Plath? ■END■