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By (author) Davidson, Andrew
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The mass-market edition of the international publishing sensation – a Richard and Judy Best Read 2009 pick
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A young man is fighting for his life.
Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him.
Their journey will have you believing in the impossible.
The nameless and beautiful narrator of The Gargoyle 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 wakes up in a burns ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned. His life is over – he is now a monster.
But in fact it is only just beginning. One day, Marianne Engel, a wild and compelling sculptress of gargoyles, enters his life and tells him that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling, he was a badly burned mercenary and she was a nun and a scribe who nursed him back to health in the famed monastery of Engelthal. As she spins her tale, Scheherazade fashion, and relates equally mesmerising stories of deathless love in Japan, Greenland, Italy and England, he finds himself drawn back to life – and, finally, to love.
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Extraordinary . . . The Gargoyle has a big personality . . . An exotic adventure.
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Wildly imaginative . . . Bound to be an international bestseller.
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Reads like a thriller
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Compulsively readable . . . the pages almost turn themselves.
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Horrifying and fantastical, this exploration of deathless love shocks and mesmerizes.
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Mixing romance, classic allusion and reality, Davidson”s debut is a bravura performance.
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Totally absorbing, it is the most amazing debut novel.
Biographical note:
Andrew Davidson was born in Manitoba and graduated in 1995 with a BA in English Literature from the University of British Columbia. He has worked as a teacher of English in Japan, where he has lived on and off, and as a writer of English lessons for Japanese websites. The Gargoyle is his first book. He lives in Manitoba, Canada.
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The mass-market edition of the international publishing sensation – a Richard and Judy Best Read 2009 pick
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”Engrossing. A spectacularly imaginative journey.”
Washington Post Book World
”Extraordinary . . . The Gargoyle has a big personality . . . An exotic adventure.”
Daily Telegraph
A young man is fighting for his life.
Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him.
Their journey will have you believing in the impossible.
”Mixing romance, classic allusion and reality, Davidson”s debut is a bravura performance.”
**** Marie Claire
”Reads like a thriller.”
Guardian
”Wildly imaginative . . . Bound to be an international bestseller.”
Observer
”The pages almost turn themselves.”
Metro
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