The diviners: a novel
A proposed television miniseries becomes the focus of a brutal rivalry between a hot-tempered production head, a Sikh cab driver, a bipolar bicycle messenger, and other industry wannabes.
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New York [u.a.]
Little, Brown
2005
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| Edition: | 1. ed. |
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| Summary: | A proposed television miniseries becomes the focus of a brutal rivalry between a hot-tempered production head, a Sikh cab driver, a bipolar bicycle messenger, and other industry wannabes. |
| Physical Description: | 567 S. |
| ISBN: | 0316085391 |
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| adam_text | n his first novel in seven years, Rick Moody gives us a
generous, hilarious, and brilliant look at contemporary
America, from coast to coast. In the month after Election
Day
one goal: getting in on an elusive production that seems sure
to be the Next Big Thing. It is an epic about dowsers, those
miracle workers who bring water to perpetually thirsty (and
hungry and love-starved) humankind. The movie
miniseries, as it eventually becomes
sweeping through Mongolia and closes with a Mormon diviner
finding water in the Las Vegas desert. A rumor-driven industry
is sure that it will be the please-everyone, multigenerational,
multiethnic hit of all their dreams.
Among the wannabes in pursuit of this ephemeral project:
Vanessa
a hip New York indie film company; her harried and varied staff,
including a Sikh cabdriver promoted to the office of theory
and practice of TV and the daughter of an LA media big shot,
who is hired to fetch Vanessa s Krispy Kremes and more; a
bipolar bicycle messenger who makes a fateful misdelivery;
two celebrity publicists, the Vanderbilt girls; a thriller writer
who gives Botox parties; 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 real artists surface in the
course of Moody s rollicking and intricately woven tale, and
real emotion will eventually blossom for most of Vanessa s
staff at Means of Production
The Diviners is a richly detailed look at the interlocking
worlds of entertainment, money, politics, addiction, sex, work,
and family in modern America. In this affectionate but
unflinching cautionary tale about vanity, ambition, and life s
unlikely paths, Rick Moody delivers a masterpiece of comedy
that will bring him to a still higher level of appreciation.
About the Author
Rick Moody is the author of the novels Garden State, which
won the Pushcart Press Editors Book Award, The Ice
Storm, and Purple America; two collections of stories, The
Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven and Demonology;
and a memoir, The Black Veil, winner of the PEN
Albrand Award. He has also received the Addison Metcalf
Award, the Paris Review s Aga Khan Prize, and a Guggen¬
heim Fellowship. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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n his first novel in seven years, Rick Moody gives us a
generous, hilarious, and brilliant look at contemporary
America, from coast to coast. In the month after Election
Day
one goal: getting in on an elusive production that seems sure
to be the Next Big Thing. It is an epic about dowsers, those
miracle workers who bring water to perpetually thirsty (and
hungry and love-starved) humankind. The movie
miniseries, as it eventually becomes
sweeping through Mongolia and closes with a Mormon diviner
finding water in the Las Vegas desert. A rumor-driven industry
is sure that it will be the please-everyone, multigenerational,
multiethnic hit of all their dreams.
Among the wannabes in pursuit of this ephemeral project:
Vanessa
a hip New York indie film company; her harried and varied staff,
including a Sikh cabdriver promoted to the office of "theory
and practice of TV" and the daughter of an LA media big shot,
who is hired to fetch Vanessa's Krispy Kremes and more; a
bipolar bicycle messenger who makes a fateful misdelivery;
two celebrity publicists, the Vanderbilt girls; a thriller writer
who gives Botox parties; 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 real artists surface in the
course of Moody's rollicking and intricately woven tale, and
real emotion will eventually blossom for most of Vanessa's
staff at Means of Production
The Diviners is a richly detailed look at the interlocking
worlds of entertainment, money, politics, addiction, sex, work,
and family in modern America. In this affectionate but
unflinching cautionary tale about vanity, ambition, and life's
unlikely paths, Rick Moody delivers a masterpiece of comedy
that will bring him to a still higher level of appreciation.
About the Author
Rick Moody is the author of the novels Garden State, which
won the Pushcart Press Editors' Book Award, The Ice
Storm, and Purple America; two collections of stories, The
Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven and Demonology;
and a memoir, The Black Veil, winner of the PEN
Albrand Award. He has also received the Addison Metcalf
Award, the Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize, and a Guggen¬
heim Fellowship. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. |
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