Kate’s 2¢: “Holy Cow” by David Duchovny

“Holy Cow” by David Duchovny
Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read. I’m just saying…

As I relaxed and fell into listening to the tale, not the teller, I enjoyed this story even more than “Alice in Wonderland”. I like that it was written with reading it to children in mind, yet, adults will chuckle at the many innuendos and out-right farce in some of the vignettes.
Marsha Rehns did an excellent job of reading life into the characters, enhancing our enjoyment of the tale that has a twist and a deeper meaning that ‘There is no place like home’.

From Wikipedia:
Early life: Duchovny was born in New York, in 1960.[1] He is the son of Margaret “Meg” (née Miller), a school administrator and teacher, and Amram “Ami” Ducovny (1927–2003), a writer and publicist who worked for the American Jewish Committee.[2][3][4] Duchovny’s mother is a Scottish Presbyterian emigrant from Aberdeen, Scotland.[5][6][7] His father was Jewish;[8][9][10] Duchovny’s paternal grandfather was a Jewish emigrant from Berdychiv, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine), and Duchovny’s paternal grandmother was a Jewish emigrant from Russian Poland (now in Poland).[11][12][13][14] His father dropped the h in his last name to avoid the sort of mispronunciations he encountered while serving in the Army.[2][15][16]
Duchovny attended Grace Church School and The Collegiate School For Boys (from which he graduated as head boy in 1978); both are in Manhattan. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa[17] from Princeton University[3] in 1982 with an A.B. summa cum laude in English literature. He was a member of Charter Club, one of the university’s eating clubs. In 1982, his poetry received an honorable mention for a college prize from the Academy of American Poets. The title of his senior thesis was The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckett’s Early Novels.[18] He played junior varsity basketball at Princeton.[19] He earned a Master of Arts in English Literature from Yale University and subsequently began work on a Ph.D. that remains unfinished.[3] The title of his uncompleted doctoral thesis is Magic and Technology in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry.[20]

From NLS/BARD/LOC:
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Duchovny, David. Reading time: 3 hours, 22 minutes.
Read by Marsha Rehns. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

Humor

In his debut novel, actor Duchovny tells the story of Elsie, a cow who inadvertently learns about the meat industry and sets off on a globe-spanning adventure with her friends: Jerry, a Torah-reading pig, and Tom, a sophisticated turkey. Some strong language. 2015.