The Gargoyle

Andrew Davidson

ISBN 10: 0307388670 / ISBN 13: 9780307388674

Published by Random House USA Inc, 2009

About this Item

A New York Times Bestseller The Gargoyle is the mesmerizing story of one man's descent into personal hell and his quest for salvation. "An undeniably hot book. . . . It's as engrossing as it is gruesome, the kind of horror you watch with one eye closed. . . . A hell of a story." --The Washington Post On a dark road in the middle of the night, a car plunges into a ravine. The driver survives the crash, but his injuries confine him to a hospital burn unit. There the mysterious Marianne Engel, a sculptress of grotesques, enters his life. She insists they were lovers in medieval Germany, when he was a mercenary and she was a scribe in the monastery of Engelthal. As she spins the story of their past lives together, the man's disbelief falters; soon, even the impossible can no longer be dismissed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Gargoyle
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307388670
• ISBN 13: 9780307388674
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

A New York Times Bestseller

The Gargoyle is the mesmerizing story of one man's descent into personal hell and his quest for salvation.

“An undeniably hot book. . . . It's as engrossing as it is gruesome, the kind of horror you watch with one eye closed. . . . A hell of a story.” —The Washington Post

On a dark road in the middle of the night, a car plunges into a ravine. The driver survives the crash, but his injuries confine him to a hospital burn unit. There the mysterious Marianne Engel, a sculptress of grotesques, enters his life. She insists they were lovers in medieval Germany, when he was a mercenary and she was a scribe in the monastery of Engelthal. As she spins the story of their past lives together, the man's disbelief falters; soon, even the impossible can no longer be dismissed.

About the Author

ANDREW DAVIDSON was born in Pinawa, Manitoba, and graduated in 1995 from the University of British Columbia with a B.A. in English literature. He has worked as a teacher in Japan, where he has lived on and off, and as a writer of English lessons for Japanese Web sites. The Gargoyle, the product of seven years' worth of research and composition, is his first book. Davidson lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.