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Doubleday
August 2008
On Sale: August 5, 2008
480 pages ISBN: 0385524943 EAN: 9780385524940 Hardcover
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Romance Time Travel | Paranormal | Fiction
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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