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The Diviners: A Novel, Rick Moody September 2005 hardcover first edition
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- Condition
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- Seller Notes
- ISBN
- 9780316085397
- Book Title
- Diviners : a Novel
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Thrillers / Suspense, General, Humorous / General
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 29 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 567 Pages
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During one month in the autumn of election year 200, scores of movie-business strivers are focused on one goal: getting a piece of an elusive, but surely huge, television saga. The one that opens with Huns sweeping through Mongolia and closes with a Mormon diviner in the Las Vegas desert; the sure-to-please-everyone multigenerational TV miniseries about diviners, those miracle workers who bring water to perpetually thirsty (and hungry and love-starved) humankind. Among the wannabes: Vanessa Meandro, hot-tempered head of Means of Production, and indie film company; her harried and varied staff; a Sikh cab driver, promoted to the office of theory and practice of TV; a bipolar bicycle messenger, who makes a fateful mis-delivery; two celebrity publicists, the Vanderbilt girls; a thriller writer who gives Botox parties; the daughter of a L.A. big-shot, who is hired to fetch Vanessas Krispy Kremes and more; a word man who coined the phrase inspired by a true story; and a supreme court justice who wants to write the script. A few true artists surface in the course of Moodys rollicking but intricately woven novel, and real emotion eventually blossoms for most of Vanessas staff at Means of Production, even herself. The Diviners is a cautionary tale about pointless ambition; a richly detailed look at the interlocking worlds of money, politics, addiction, sex, work, and family in modern America; and a masterpiece of comedy that will bring Rick Moody to still higher levels of appreciation. QUOTES A spirited, side-splitting romp through the scorpion-ridden wastes of U.S. showbizcool, hip and wickedly funnyA prodigiously talented writer, Moody offers a multitude of pleasures. His edgy prose is superb; his comedic talent raises, at a bare minimum, a giggle a page; his immersion in popular culture never compromises an acute, acerbic intelligence. Globe and Mail (reviewed by Guy Vanderhaeghe) A hugely entertaining social satire, The Diviners represents a real change for the writer, at least in tonethough he wasnt making any special effort to be more accessible, he has done just that.The book has such a lyrical, musical quality that its like an easy-to-read Finnegans Wake. Calgary Herald A rollicking novel about the interlocking worlds of entertainment, money and politics.The cast is huge and colourful, and the summing-up of a confused era is reminiscent of Jonathan Franzens The Corrections. Vancouver Sun
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316085391
ISBN-13
9780316085397
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45321471
Product Key Features
Book Title
Diviners : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / Suspense, General, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
567 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
29 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3563.O5537d+
Copyright Date
2006
Lccn
2005-003823
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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