Novels in a few sentences

I recently wentthrough some posts on an old blog of mine, and I came across this littlegem.  Years earlier, I had heard that agood exercise for creating pitches was to describe your novel in threesentences.  So I tried it with two of my ideas.  For my novel, Damocles, I came up withthe following:Most people gothrough their day-to-day lives worrying about “important” things: