David Duchovny

When cow Elsie Bovary sneaks out of her pasture, she makes a discovery that shakes her very world to its core, forcing her, along with a motley crew of fellow animals, to escape to a better, safer world in search of mutual understanding and acceptance.

A Modern-Day Dairy Tale

Holy Cow

From the New York Times–bestselling author David Duchovny, an epic adventure that asks how we make sense of right and wrong in a world of extremes For the past twenty years, Bronson Powers, former Hollywood stuntman and converted Mormon, has been homesteading deep in the uninhabited desert outside Joshua Tree with his three wives and ten children. Bronson and his wives, Yalulah, Mary, and Jackie, have been raising their family away from the corruption and evil of the modern world. Their insular existence—controversial, difficult, but Edenic—is upended when the ambitious young developer Maya Abbadessa stumbles upon their land. Hoping to make a profit, she crafts a wager with the family that sets in motion a deadly chain of events. Maya, threatening to report the family to social services, convinces them to enter three of their children into a nearby public school. Bronson and his wives agree that if Maya can prove that the kids do better in town than in their desert oasis, they will sell her a chunk of their priceless plot of land. Suddenly confronted with all the complications of the twenty-first century that they tried to keep out of their lives, the Powerses must reckon with their lifestyle as they try to save it. Truly Like Lightning, David Duchovny’s fourth novel, is a heartbreaking meditation on family, religion, sex, greed, human nature, and the vanishing environment of an ancient desert.

A Novel

Truly Like Lightning

"A story of the bond between fathers and sons, Yankee fans and the Fenway faithful, which grapples with our urgent need to persevere--and risk everything--in the name of love"--

Bucky F*cking Dent

A tale inspired by the myth of Emer and Cuchulain incorporates mythical figures from all over the world and traces a New York City woman's mystical journey down parallel tracks of time and love.

Miss Subways

A former Wall Street veteran, quarantined by the coronavirus, becomes consumed with madness—or the fulfillment of his own mythic fate. “This beautiful fever dream of a novella put me in mind of Gabriel García Márquez because of its sense of romance—and humor—in the midst of calamity. I’ll never look at Central Park the same way.” —Amanda Peet “A heartbreaking story of the cloaked complexities of father-daughter love framed as a sort of virtuoso suicide note. In its depiction of the breakthrough longings that come with growing older, it also struck me, wonderfully, as a contemporary Death in Venice.” —Walter Kirn, author of Blood Will Out “Biting and funny, The Reservoir is also deep and reflective. A mystery wrapped in a fever dream. A tale for our infectious times.” —Chris Carter, director/writer, creator of The X-Files The Reservoir follows an unexceptional man in an exceptional time. We see our present-day pandemic world and New York City through the eyes of a former Wall Street veteran, Ridley, as he looks back upon his life in his enforced quarantine solitude, wondering what it all means and who he really is. Sitting and brooding night after night, gazing out his huge picture window high above the Central Park Reservoir, Ridley spots a flashing light in an apartment across the park as if a lonely quarantined person is signaling him in Morse code. His determination to find out who this mystery woman is leads him on an epic quest that will ultimately tempt him with either delusional madness or the fulfillment of his own mythic fate. Is he a dying man going mad or an everyman metamorphosing into a hero? Or both? We accompany Ridley as he leaves the safety of his apartment window to save the Fifth Avenue femme fatale and descends into a dangerous, increasingly surreal world of global conspiracies, madness, and sickness of this viral time. As Ridley’s actions grow more and more uncharacteristic, he realizes the key to all the mysteries of now, and even all of history, seem to lie deep beneath the freezing waters of the reservoir. The Reservoir is a twisted rom-com for our distanced time, when the merest touch could kill and conspiracy theories propagate like viruses—a contemporary union of Death in Venice, Rear Window, and The Plague.

The Reservoir

Elsie e uma vaca feliz. Passa os dias a comer, a dormir e adora a quinta e os fazendeiros. Mas, um belo dia, aproxima-se da casa dos fazendeiros e, atraves da janela, ve uma televis?o onde esta a passar um horroroso programa sobre . E o mundo de Elsie cai a seus pes. Ou melhor, patas. Apenas uma soluc?o se apresenta: fugir para um mundo melhor e mais seguro. Mas n?o vai sozinha: rapidamente se juntam a ela o peru Tom, que n?o sabe voar mas e agil a usar um iPhone; e o porco Jerry, ou melhor, Shalom, recem-convertido ao Judaismo. Elsie tem tanto de filosofa e viajante quanto de habil narradora, cheia de referencias pop e nerd e um humor muito peculiar Tom e um peru psicanalista que aprendera a voar. Shalom e rejeitado pelo povo que adota mas acaba por ser um diplomata involuntario. Deixe-se surpreender por estes carismaticos herois - e pelas lic?es morais e de vida que lhe v?o dar.

Vaca Sagrada

Phillip Sevy

An allegorical sci-fi thriller in the tradition of Planet of the Apes! The graphic novel debut of critically-acclaimed actor, author and musician David Duchovny! When the Benadem, benevolent space gods, return to KEPLER, a planet where homo sapiens went extinct and all other hominid species thrived, their arrival threatens to plunge the world into chaos. West, a 16-year-old Neanderthal girl, is thrust into the conflict and is the only hope to prevent extinction. Her efforts, unique because of her mixed hominid heritage, not only change her life, but also reveal the merciless ambition and identity of the gods themselves. In the tradition of Planet of the Apes, KEPLER is an allegorical thriller of environmental disaster, colonialism, religion, history, and adolescence told through the eyes of a lonely outsider.

Kepler

A former Wall Street veteran, quarantined by the coronavirus, becomes consumed with madness--or the fulfillment of his own mythic fate The Reservoir follows an unexceptional man in an exceptional time. We see our present-day pandemic world and New York City through the eyes of a former Wall Street veteran, Ridley, as he, in his enforced quarantined solitude, looks back upon his life. He examines his wins, his failures, the gnawing questions--his career, his divorce, his estranged daughter--and wonders what it all means and who he really is. Sitting and brooding night after night, gazing out his huge picture window high above the Central Park Reservoir, Ridley spots a flashing light in an apartment across the park as if a lonely quarantined person is signaling him in Morse code. His determination to find out who this mystery woman is, this fellow quarantine damsel in distress trapped in her own Fifth Avenue tower, leads him on an epic quest that will ultimately tempt him with either delusional madness or the fulfillment of his own mythic fate. Is he a dying man going mad or an everyman metamorphosing into a hero? Or both? We accompany Ridley as he leaves the safety of his apartment window to save the Fifth Avenue femme fatale and descends into a dangerous, increasingly surreal world of global conspiracies, madness, and sickness of this viral time; beyond that, into the enduring mysteries of love and fatherhood; and deeper still, into the bedrock mystery of life itself. As Ridley's actions grow more and more uncharacteristic, he realizes the key to all the mysteries of now, and even all of history, seem to lie deep beneath the freezing waters of the reservoir. The Reservoir is a twisted rom-com for our distanced time, when the merest touch could kill and conspiracy theories propagate like viruses--a contemporary union of Death in Venice, Rear Window, and The Plague.

Vous connaissez Emma Bovary ? Voici sa cousine américaine, une adorable petite vache au destin tout aussi romanesque. Pour Elsie Bovary, le bonheur a toujours été dans le pré – jusqu’au jour où elle comprend qu’elle est vouée à finir en steak haché. Flanquée de deux complices, Shlomo le cochon converti au judaïsme et Tom le dindon qui voulait voir Istanbul, Elsie, déterminée à éviter l’abattoir, se lance dans un rocambolesque projet de Grande Évasion. Pour son premier roman, l’acteur David Duchovny détourne la fable animalière avec un toupet irrésistible. Best-seller aux États-Unis, Oh la vache !, signé par le plus célèbre chasseur d’aliens de toute l’histoire télévisée, est l’OVNI littéraire de l’année : une comédie aussi drôle et déjantée qu’un film Pixar, bourrée de clins d’œil, politiquement incorrecte et moins candide qu’il n’y paraît, entre George Orwell et Tex Avery. David Duchovny écrivain ? Meuh non ! Meuh si.

roman traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Claro

Oh la vache !

Marty Fullilove und sein Sohn Ted sind beide auf ihre ganz eigene Art im Leben gescheitert. Der Vater als zynischer Lebemann, der an nichts ein gutes Haar lassen kann. Der Sohn als Möchtegern-Schriftsteller, der als Erdnussverkäufer im Stadion arbeitet. Beide haben seit Jahren kein Wort miteinander gewechselt. Da braucht es schon einen unheilbaren Lungenkrebs, damit Ted seinem Vater einen Besuch abstattet. Zunächst wird er mit den üblichen Vorwürfen und Beschimpfungen begrüßt. Doch nach und nach finden die beiden zueinander – über Baseball, die Suche nach der wahren Liebe und die Freuden des Cannabiskonsums.

Roman

Ein Papagei in Brooklyn

Hören Sie auf Elsie, die Kuh! Was haben Kühe, Popkultur und der Palästinakonflikt miteinander zu tun? Nun, sie sind alle Teil unserer heutigen Welt. Und in dieser Welt macht sich eine junge Kuh namens Elsie auf, etwas an ihrem Schicksal zu ändern. Gemeinsam mit einem zum Judentum konvertierten Schwein und dem wild plappernden Truthahn Tom begibt sie sich auf eine Abenteuerreise, in deren Verlauf der Leser viel Wahres über die Menschen erfährt. Eine saukuhle Fabel, geschrieben von einem saucoolen Autor. Elsie ist eine junge Kuh, und eine glückliche dazu! Sie verbringt ihre langen, ereignislosen Tage mit Essen, Schlummern und Plaudereien mit ihrer besten Freundin Mallory. Doch eines Nachts schleichen sich Elsie und Mallory von ihrer Weide und müssen durch das Fenster des Bauernhofs mit ansehen, was der leuchtende Schachtelgott (so nennen sie den Fernseher) über »industrielle Mastbetriebe« offenbart. Elsies heile Welt ist in ihren Grundfesten erschüttert. Für sie gibt es nur eine Lösung: Sie muss in eine bessere, sichere Welt flüchten. Und so bildet sich ein kunterbuntes Trio, bestehend aus Elsie, Jerry – Verzeihung, Shalom –, einem thoralesenden Schwein, das vor Kurzem zum Judentum konvertiert ist, und Tom, einem (zumindest in seinen Augen) charmanten Truthahn, der nicht fliegen, dafür aber mit dem Schnabel ein iPhone bedienen kann. Die drei begeben sich auf eine abenteuerliche Reise, in der sie eine Menge über die Welt, in der wir leben, erfahren.

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