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Also by Rick Moody:

The Diviners, September 2005
Hardcover
The Ice Storm, April 2002
Paperback

The Diviners
Rick Moody

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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