The Reservoir by David Duchovny Paperback Book

Description: The Reservoir by David Duchovny New paperback edition of The Reservoir from author, actor, and musician David Duchovny includes a bonus, brand-new short story, "The Scare Owl" FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Ridleys 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. Author Biography DAVID DUCHOVNY is an award-winning actor, writer, director, New York Times best-selling author, and singer-songwriter. With an acting career spanning more than three decades, Duchovny is a two-time Golden Globe winner and four-time Emmy nominee. He is the author of four previous novels: Truly Like Lightning, Holy Cow, Bucky F*cking Dent, and Miss Subways. Duchovny adapted his novel Bucky F*cking Dent into a film he also directed, which premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. As a musician, Duchovny has released three studio albums, Hell or Highwater, Every Third Thought, and Gestureland. The Reservoir is his most recent book. Review 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 OutDavid Duchovny writes like Bob Dylan, but in prose. Theres irony, poetry, theres social commentary. Theres a brooding outrage. And theres romance, too. The complex, multilayered novella, The Reservoir . . . is an easy-to-read, hard-to-forget page-turner.-- "The Pavlovic Today"David Duchovnys existentialist novella is not to be missed. [The Reservoir] is a novel of many well-crafted and complex lines [and] Duchovnys writing is a combination of high and low--and yes, that distinction still exists, if barely. His metaphors and similes are arresting . . . The Reservoir is an important novel for how it captures, not just where we are now, but where we are forever. Disease--like Covid, or like tuberculosis in The Magic Mountain--takes us on a journey outward and at the same time inward-- "CityJournal"Equal parts Rear Window and The Plague, David Duchovnys new novella is a wildly imaginative morality tale for these confounding times. With the Central Park Reservoir as his canvas, Duchovny paints a protagonist as quixotic as he is unreliable (or is he?). I had no idea where this story was headed, but I was down for the ride on every pageThe progeny of our current pandemic is various: illness and death, of course, but also economic dislocation and personal isolation, the concept of social distancing having quickly morphed from an advisory into a way of life. David Duchovnys excellent new novella, The Reservoir, is a fever dream born out of this isolation.-- "Popmatters"[Duchovnys] novella The Reservoir, set in New York City, probes how pandemic isolation has changed us.-- "Boston Globe"A new, pandemic-inspired, Rear Window-esque thriller.-- "Village Voice"Evocative, chilly prose that wouldnt be out of place in a late Don DeLillo novel. Like his previous novels Bucky F*cking Dent and Miss Subways, its a love letter to Duchovnys native New York. But its also a smart story about obsession. A slim, compelling tale of a man on the brink.-- "Kirkus Reviews"In the former X-Files actors fifth [book], a lonely ex-financier stuck in his apartment during the COVID-19 pandemic becomes obsessed with the Central Park Reservoir and slowly goes mad.-- "New York Times Book Review" Details ISBN163614165X Author David Duchovny Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781636141657 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-01-30 Country of Publication United States Audience General US Release Date 2024-01-30 Pages 160 Publisher Akashic Books,U.S. Imprint Akashic Books,U.S. Place of Publication New York ISBN-10 163614165X UK Release Date 2024-01-30 DEWEY 813.6 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:157983452;

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