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The Gargoyle

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The Gargoyle is a magnificent love story, sweeping across centuries and continents. When it ends you'll want to read it again.

After a horrific car accident a man lies in hospital with severe burns to almost all of his body. He endures the pain, the hideous disfigurement and the excruciating treatments to remove the dead and rotting skin only in the hope of becoming well enough to end his life.

Then Marianne Engel, sculptor of gargoyles, appears. She unravels a wild, impossible tale of a life they had together, a tale that begins with her nursing him when he was burned once before, seven hundred years ago in Germany. Weaving stories within her story-fables of love in Japan, Iceland, Italy and England-Marianne slowly brings beauty and love into his life.

'I was blown away by The Gargoyle...A hypnotic, horrifying, astonishing novel that manages, against all odds, to be redemptive.' Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants


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Publisher: The Text Publishing Company

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781921776304
  • Release date: May 16, 2010

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781921776304
  • File size: 1046 KB
  • Release date: May 16, 2010

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OverDrive Read
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subjects

Fiction Literature

Languages

English

The Gargoyle is a magnificent love story, sweeping across centuries and continents. When it ends you'll want to read it again.

After a horrific car accident a man lies in hospital with severe burns to almost all of his body. He endures the pain, the hideous disfigurement and the excruciating treatments to remove the dead and rotting skin only in the hope of becoming well enough to end his life.

Then Marianne Engel, sculptor of gargoyles, appears. She unravels a wild, impossible tale of a life they had together, a tale that begins with her nursing him when he was burned once before, seven hundred years ago in Germany. Weaving stories within her story-fables of love in Japan, Iceland, Italy and England-Marianne slowly brings beauty and love into his life.

'I was blown away by The Gargoyle...A hypnotic, horrifying, astonishing novel that manages, against all odds, to be redemptive.' Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants


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