Review of Contemporary Fiction, April 1st, 2006
Rick Moody. The Diviners. Little, Brown, 2005. 567 pp. $25.95. The Diviners, Rick Moody's big, brilliant new novel, is about a hot miniseries project, a thirteen-part epic stretching from ancient Mongolia to the founding of Las Vegas, held together by divining, the semisupernatural ability to find water in even the driest places. Everyone wants a piece of the miniseries, but there's one problem-it doesn't exist. It's the desperate improvisation of a production company assistant who's lost a film treatment. Moody offers us dozens of quirky and memorable characters whose stories intersect and i...
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