| "The Gargoyle is purely and simply an amazement." Peter Straub |
The narrator of THE GARGOYLE is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and suffers horrible burns over much of his body. As he recovers in a burn ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned, he awaits the day when he can leave the hospital and commit carefully planned suicide - for he is now a monster in appearance as well as in soul.
A beautiful and compelling, but clearly unhinged, sculptress of gargoyles by the name of Marianne Engel appears at the foot of his bed and tells him that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling, he was a badly injured mercenary and she was a nun and scribe in the famed monastery of Engelthal who nursed him back to health. As she spins their tale in Scheherazade fashion and relates equally mesmerizing stories of deathless love in Japan, Iceland, Italy, and England, he finds himself drawn back to life - and finally in love. He is released into Marianne's care and takes up residence in her huge stone house. But all is not well. For one thing, the pull of his past sins becomes ever more powerful as the morphine he is prescribed becomes ever more addictive. For another, Marianne receives word from God that she only has twenty-seven sculptures left to complete - and her time on earth will be finished.
Already an international literary sensation, THE GARGOYLE is an Inferno for our time. It will have you believing in the impossible.
A beautiful and compelling, but clearly unhinged, sculptress of gargoyles by the name of Marianne Engel appears at the foot of his bed and tells him that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling, he was a badly injured mercenary and she was a nun and scribe in the famed monastery of Engelthal who nursed him back to health. As she spins their tale in Scheherazade fashion and relates equally mesmerizing stories of deathless love in Japan, Iceland, Italy, and England, he finds himself drawn back to life - and finally in love. He is released into Marianne's care and takes up residence in her huge stone house. But all is not well. For one thing, the pull of his past sins becomes ever more powerful as the morphine he is prescribed becomes ever more addictive. For another, Marianne receives word from God that she only has twenty-seven sculptures left to complete - and her time on earth will be finished.
Already an international literary sensation, THE GARGOYLE is an Inferno for our time. It will have you believing in the impossible.
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Hardback Editions
September 2008 : Hardback
| Title: The Gargoyle Author(s): Andrew Davidson ISBN: 1-84767-168-3 / 9781847671684 (UK edition) Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 2008 : Hardback
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August 2008 : Hardback
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2008 : Hardback
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2008 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
August 2009 : Paperback
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June 2009 : Paperback
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February 2009 : Mass Market Paperback
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February 2009 : Perfect Paperback
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January 2009 : Paperback
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2009 : Paperback
| Title: The Gargoyle Edition: First Author(s): Andrew Davidson ISBN: 1-60751-641-1 / 9781607516415 (USA edition) Publisher: Doubleday Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
2009 : Paperback
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September 2008 : Paperback
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August 2008 : Paperback
| Title: Gargoyle, The Author(s): Andrew Davidson ISBN: 1-921351-75-6 / 9781921351754 (Australia edition) Publisher: The Text Publishing Company Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
August 2008 : Paperback
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2008 : Paperback
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Audio Editions
August 2008 : Audio CD
| Title: The Gargoyle Author(s): Andrew Davidson ISBN: 0-7393-2895-6 / 978-0-7393-2895-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Audio Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
2008 : Audio CD
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August 2008 : Kindle edition
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April 2008 : Kindle edition
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2008 : Unknown
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