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The reservoir / David Duchovny.

Duchovny, David, (author.).

Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781636140445
  • ISBN: 1636140440
  • Physical Description: 128 pages ; 19 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, 2022.
Subject: COVID-19 (Disease) > Fiction.
City and town life > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
Fathers and daughters > Fiction.
Pandemics > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Central Park (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.
Genre: Detective and mystery fiction.
Black humor.
Novellas.

Available copies

  • 6 of 6 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Albright Memorial Library MYS DUCHOVN (Text) 50686016181955 Adult Fiction Available -
Exeter Community Library DUC (Text) 33249025335484 Fiction Available -
Gettysburg Library MYS FIC DUCHOVNY DAVID (Text) 35740635844236 Mystery Fiction Available -
Martin Library Adults DUC Fiction (Text) 33454005877352 Reading Room Balcony Available -
Reading Public Library RPL - Main Fiction Duchovny (Text) 33223008922535 Fiction Available -
Easton Main Library DUCHOVNY (Text) 31901004608404 Adult Fiction Available -

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