Complex sentence: A smart, darkly comic novel about a man who is dragged into the media spotlight because he believes wearing tin foil keeps him safe from harmful gamma rays away, becoming a media sensation and marketing a successful line of foil hats to Chicago.
Split into simpler sentences: A smart, darkly comic novel about a man who is inadvertently dragged into the media spotlight. Because he believes wearing tin foil keeps him safe from harmful gamma rays, he becomes a media sensation by marketing a successful line of foil hats to Chicago.