Synopsis After a break of eight years, Rick Moody, the author of THE ICE STORM, returns to fiction with THE DIVINERS, which examines the emptiness that lies at the heart of the oversized, overblown ambitions of the American entertainment industry. In December 2000, the election recount drags on, gripping the country with unrest. The future seems uncertain, but various players in the film and television industry have more important things to worry about: they're busy battling over the rights to THE DIVINERS, a miniseries about dowsing that doesn't even have a script and is supposedly inspired by a novel that no one actually seems to have read.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2007-01-02 | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Length: | 567 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 18.4 oz |
Industry Reviews "One of the many good qualities of Rick Moody's THE DIVINERS is that he has written a Hollywood novel that separates the meaning of Hollywood from that of Los Angeles, a real city erased by the mythology created by a million hours of movies and television shows set there arbitrarily." Bookforum - Michael Tolkin
"As a whole the novel fits together, and it is coruscating enough that you make allowances for the bits that don't. Moody takes so many risks, and his prose is so exuberant, that there are inevitable misfirings. He gets away with this, too." (02/01/2006)
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