The Reservoir: A Novella [Paperback]

In the former [Duchovny's] novella Comically absurd, funny, and very dark. A new, pandemic-inspired, Evocative, chilly prose that wouldn't be out of place in a late Don DeLillo novel. Like his previous novels David Duchovnys existentialist novella is not to be missed. [ The 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,? David 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,? Bump?[ Inspired by Duchovnys self-reflection while sequestered in his own aerie above Central Park at the height of the pandemic, this work is provocative, challenging, and not without its moments of dark humor. This intelligent effort further burnishes Duchovnys status as a gifted novelist. This swift and unnerving fever-dream of a novella, Duchovnys fifth work of fiction, is saturated with mythic and literary allusions and shaped by resonant riffs on Poe and Mann. At once philosophical and suspenseful, grandly imaginative and sharply funny, this mind-bending story of delusion and longing is a dark reflection of New Yorks countless crimes and tragedies and much-tested resilience, emblematic of the suffering and tenacity of all of humanity. This beautiful fever dream of a novella put me in mind of Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez because of its sense of romanceand humorin the midst of calamity. Ill never look at Central Park the same way. 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? Biting and funny,? Equal parts?