Divining Rod

by Michael Knight

Sam Holladay shocks all who know him when he murders his neighbor, Simon Bell, but in a series of flashbacks, the motive for his crime, Simon's affair with his wife, is revealed. A first novel. Reprint.

Genres: Fiction, American

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Michael Knight is the author of the novels The Typist and Divining Rod, the short story collections Eveningland, Goodnight, Nobody, and Dogfight and Other Stories, and the book of novellas The Holiday Season. His novel, The Typist, was selected as a Best Book of the Year by The Huffington Post and The Kansas City Star, among other places, and appeared on Oprah’s Summer Reading List in 2011. His short stories have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker, Oxford American, Paris Review and The Southern Review and have been anthologized in Best American Mystery Stories, 2004 and New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best 1999, 2003, 2004 and 2009. Knight teaches creative writing at the University of Tennessee and lives in Knoxville with his family.

Reviews

[Askou · Rating 2 out of 5]

Zuallererst: Ich glaube, ich gehöre einfach nicht zur richtigen Zielgruppe des Romans. Anders kann ich mir nicht erklären, was an diesem Buch gut sein soll. Wäre der Schreibstil nicht flüssig, hätte es nur einen Stern bekommen.
Es handelt vom Betrügen, was auch noch gut geredet wird. Könnte ich ein Buch abbrechen, hätte ich es an dieser Stelle getan.