Holy Cow
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4.1 • 21 Ratings
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- £1.99
Publisher Description
Holy Cow by David Duchovny is a comic delight that will thrill fans of Jasper Fforde and Ben Aaronovitch. And anyone who enjoys a witty wisecrack in a novel.
Elsie Bovary is a cow and a pretty happy one at that. Until one night, Elsie sneaks out of the pasture and finds herself drawn to the farmhouse. Through the window, she sees the farmer's family gathered around a bright Box God - and what the Box God reveals about something called an 'industrial meat farm' shakes Elsie's understanding of her world to its core.
The only solution? To escape to a better, safer world. And so a motley crew is formed: Elsie; Shalom, a grumpy pig who's recently converted to Judaism; and Tom, a suave turkey who can't fly, but can work an iPhone with his beak. Toting stolen passports and slapdash human disguises, they head for the airport ...
Elsie is a wise-cracking, slyly witty narrator; Tom dispenses psychiatric advice in a fake German accent; and Shalom ends up unexpectedly uniting Israelis and Palestinians. David Duchovny's charismatic creatures point the way toward a mutual understanding and acceptance the world desperately needs.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Actor David Duchovny’s weird and hysterically funny novella follows a cow from upstate New York who confronts hard truths about life as a farm animal—and her complicated relationship with humans. We zipped through Holy Cow, savouring every moment of knowing humour and pop-culture cleverness. Ditzy teenage mannerisms aside, Elsie Bovary is an unusually perceptive, witty and straight-talking narrator who’s nabbed a spot on our list of favourite modern heroines.
Customer Reviews
Great book
A funny, imaginative book that not only delivers an important message, but is a pleasure to read! As a vegan, but also just as a person with a sense of humour, thank you for giving me such a fun, easy read.
Fun, thought-provoking book
David writes a fun and thought provoking tale that will touch the hearts of many. It was because of my daily encounter with cows, (living next door to a field of them), making friends and watching calves being born and grow, seeing those sweet faces, that I decided to become vegetarian then vegan at the age of 8. I am 53 now and have never looked back.
I love animals and don’t want to eat them, simple as that.
So this book is close to my heart.8
It is wonderful to read a book that comes from the cows perspective, the adventures and comical accounts of a cow and other animals.
Definitely worth a read, no matter what age you are.
Thank you David for this fantastic book. Emi :) no