Gargoyle, The - Softcover

Andrew Davidson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1921351756 ISBN 13: 9781921351754

Publisher: Text Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

'It is serious and daft, quiet and exhuberant, a novel that makes you think and an exotic adventure.'

Book Description:

The mass-market edition of the international publishing sensation - a Richard and Judy Best Read 2009 pick

About this edition

• Publisher: Text Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1921351756
• ISBN 13: 9781921351754
• Binding: Paperback