Luckily the Account Representative Knew CPR

Luckily the Account Representative Knew CPR is a short story written by David Foster Wallace. Released in 1989, it is the second story in Wallace's anthology Girl with Curious Hair and is set within a dull office block.

Characters[]

The Account Representative
The Vice President in Charge of Overseas Production

Plot[]

In the office complex (dubbed the Building) of an unnamed firm, an Account Representative and the Vice President in Charge of Overseas Production leave the office at the end of the day. While in the parking lot, the Account Representative begins to get on his motorcycle and notices the large frame of the Vice President while doing so, even though he has his contacts out. Shortly after the Account Representative notices the Vice President, the Vice President has a heart attack. Fortunately, the Account Representative was taught CPR by his Red Cross nurse wife (from which he has recently separated) and supplies a limited amount of life to the Vice President while calling for help.

See also[]

Title	Author	Release date	Significance
The Pale King	David Foster Wallace	2011	A novel by the same author with similar themes

Works of David Foster Wallace
Novels The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, The Pale King Short story collections Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion Girl with Curious Hair Little Expressionless Animals, Luckily the Account Representative Knew CPR, Girl with Curious Hair, Lyndon, John Billy, Here and There, My Appearance, Say Never, Everything is Green, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way Brief Interviews with Hideous Men A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life, Death Is Not the End, Forever Overhead, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (XI), The Depressed Person, The Devil is a Busy Man, Think, Signifying Nothing, Datum Centurio, Octet, Adult World, Church Not Made with Hands, Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (VI), Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko, On His Deathbed, Holding Your Hand, the Acclaimed New Young Off-Broadway Playwright's Father Begs a Boon, Suicide as a Sort of Present, Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (XXIV) Oblivion Mister Squishy, The Soul Is Not a Smithy, Incarations of Burned Children, Another Pioneer, Good Old Neon, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Oblivion, The Suffering Channel Essay collections and nonfiction Signifying Rappers (written with Mark Costello), A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Everything and More, Consider the Lobster, Fate, Time, and Language, String Theory Major and recurring characters Lenore Beadsman, Hal Incandenza, Don Gately, Joelle van Dyne, Rémy Marathe