Gargoyle

Davidson, Andrew (SIGNED)

ISBN 10: 0307356779 / ISBN 13: 9780307356772

Published by Random House Canada, Toronto, 2008

About this Item

Massive debut novel from the Manitoba author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 464pp. Signed by author & illustrated with heart surrounding title & fiery border on half-title page. Minor rubbing to 2 corners.

Seller Inventory # 003254

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gargoyle
• Publisher: Random House Canada, Toronto
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307356779
• ISBN 13: 9780307356772
• Binding: Pictorial Boards
• Edition: Fourth Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine +
• Signed: *** Signed By Author ***
• Seller catalogs:
  • Canadian Fiction

About this title

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.