TY  - BOOK
AU  - Duchovny,David
TI  - Holy cow
SN  - 9780374172077
AV  - PS3604.U343 H65 2015
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Cows
KW  - Fiction
KW  - FICTION / Humorous
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Literary
KW  - FICTION / Satire
KW  - американская литература
KW  - 20 век конец
KW  - 21 век 1 половина
KW  - проза
KW  - Fables
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Humorous fiction
N2  - "A rollicking, globe-trotting adventure with a twist: a four-legged heroine you won't soon forget  Elsie Bovary is a cow, and a pretty happy one at that--her long, lazy days are spent eating, napping, and chatting with her best friend, Mallory. One night, Elsie and Mallory sneak out of their pasture; but while Mallory is interested in flirting with the neighboring bulls, Elsie 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.  There's only one solution: escape to a better, safer world. And so a motley crew is formed: Elsie; Jerry--excuse me, Shalom--a cranky, Torah-reading pig who's recently converted to Judaism; and Tom, a suave (in his own mind, at least) turkey who can't fly, but who can work an iPhone with his beak. Toting stolen passports and slapdash human disguises, they head for the airport.  Elsie is our wise-cracking, pop-culture-reference-dropping, slyly witty narrator; Tom--who does eventually learn to fly (sort of)--dispenses psychiatric advice in a fake German accent; and Shalom, rejected by his adopted people in Jerusalem, ends up unexpectedly uniting Israelis and Palestinians. David Duchovny's charismatic creatures point the way toward a mutual understanding and acceptance that the world desperately needs"--; "A humorous allegory in the spirit of Animal Farm"--
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