pp. 468. 8vo. Pictoral boards, author's ink signature and inscription to half-title page. Light shelfwear, binding pushing out at spine, rear pastedown coming away from board, ink from signature bleeding through to title page; very good in very good- rippled dust jacket with sticker to tear to base of spine.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The Gargoyle

Publisher

Random House, Toronto

Publication Date

2008

Language

English

ISBN 10

0307356779

ISBN 13

9780307356772

Binding

Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition

Signed

Signed

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Canadian Literature

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Synopsis

An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time.

On a burn ward, a man lies between living and dying, so disfigured that no one from his past life would even recognize him. His only comfort comes from imagining various inventive ways to end his misery. Then a woman named Marianne Engel walks into his hospital room, a wild-haired, schizophrenic sculptress on the lam from the psych ward upstairs, who insists that she knows him – that she has known him, in fact, for seven hundred years. She remembers vividly when they met, in another hospital ward at a convent in medieval Germany, when she was a nun and he was a wounded mercenary left to die. If he has forgotten this, he is not to worry: she will prove it to him.

And so Marianne Engel begins to tell him their story, carving away his disbelief and slowly drawing him into the orbit and power of a word he'd never uttered: love.

About the Author

Andrew Davidson grew up 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 of English in Japan, where he has lived on and off since the late 1990s, and as a writer of English lessons for Japanese websites. The Gargoyle, the product of seven years’ worth of research and composition, is his first novel.

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