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Title	:	The Gargoyle
Author	:	Andrew Davidson
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 465 pages
Published	:	August 5th 2008 by Doubleday (first published 2008)
Categories	:	Fiction. Fantasy. Historical. Historical Fiction. Romance

The Gargoyle

Andrew Davidson

Hardcover | Pages: 465 pages

Rating: 3.96 | 42546 Users | 5436 Reviews

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An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time. The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he 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 suffers horrible burns over much of his body. As he recovers in a burn ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned, he awaits the day when he can leave the hospital and commit carefully planned suicide—for he is now a monster in appearance as well as in soul. A beautiful and compelling, but clearly unhinged, sculptress of gargoyles by the name of Marianne Engel appears at the foot of his bed and insists that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling, he was a badly injured mercenary and she was a nun and scribe in the famed monastery of Engelthal who nursed him back to health. As she spins their tale in Scheherazade fashion and relates equally mesmerizing stories of deathless love in Japan, Iceland, Italy, and England, he finds himself drawn back to life—and, finally, in love. He is released into Marianne's care and takes up residence in her huge stone house. But all is not well. For one thing, the pull of his past sins becomes ever more powerful as the morphine he is prescribed becomes ever more addictive. For another, Marianne receives word from God that she has only twenty-seven sculptures left to complete—and her time on earth will be finished. Already an international literary sensation, the Gargoyle is an Inferno for our time. It will have you believing in the impossible.

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Original Title:	The Gargoyle
ISBN:	0385524943 (ISBN13: 9780385524940)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Marianne Engel
Setting:	North America Germany Japan …more England Italy Iceland …less
Literary Awards:	Sunburst Award for Canadian Novel (2009)

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Hopeful, Yet Heart-Crushing "I looked out this morning and the sun was goneTurned on some music to start my dayI lost myself in a familiar songI closed my eyes and I slipped away****I see my Marianne walkin' away...."Boston, "More Than a Feeling," 19754.2 stars [revised/shortened on 6/27]by Elizabeth Lisa, My Visualization of Marianne Engel, from novelTwo separate but related stories occur within this novel, with maybe 4/5 meta-meta-fables of love being told to the protagonist by his lover

is this worth reading? It has been sitting on my shelf for such a long time.

Buddy read with Roya and then Charlie! ^^This book is a tale of tales. If you are like me and you have to prepare your mindset before diving into such stories, consider yourselves warned! Dont worry, the plot isnt complicated to follow. It took me a whole year to finish it, since I wasnt prepared, and The Gargoyle isnt the type of book I usually pick to read. Also, both my friends finished it very quickly and falling behind, I lost some of my motivation.The Gargoyle is an odd, intriguing book, a



This Book is Beautiful Beyond Words!!!5 "Beautiful Grotesque" stars!!! Our Nameless HeroOur hero is wounded and almost dead. He survives a horrible accident and struggles to survive. My flesh began to singe as if I were a scrap of meat newly thrown onto the barbecue, and then i could hear the bubbling of my skin as the flames kissed it. My skin will never work like that again, so aware of the other person that I'm unsure where she ends and I begin. Never again. Never again will my skin be a

I gave this almost 200 pages to win me over since it has been hyped so much and everyone seems to love it, but I had to give up on it and move on. I thought that the writing was very good, with some vivid images, especially the early one equating the narrator's burn to the pain caused by touching a hot stove--for a full minute. I also, surprisingly, enjoyed some of Marianne's tales of love. The problem was--okay, one of the problems was--that I found them to be more interesting than her own

The Gargoyle moves you to want to be in love and to NEVER want to be in love. Love is suffering, love is bliss. Davidson has penned a beautiful book full of love, meaning, and intelligence. It's not often that a person can learn history,religion and culture in a book about love. Oh and he threw in burn procedures, yes BURN procedures in a book about love, somehow it seems fitting. Wait, I think I forgot to mention there are language translations too. I do realize a lot of people run from