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A sprawling saga of Hollywood by the author of GARDEN STATE
Little, Brown
September 2005
Featuring: Vanessa Meandro
576 pages
ISBN: 0316085391
Hardcover
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Contemporary
During one month in the autumn of election year 2000,
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, an 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 an L.A. big-shot, who
is hired to fetch Vanessa's 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 Moody's
rollicking but intricately woven novel.
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