Andrew Davidson, author
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Biography
Andrew Davidson was born in Manitoba, and graduated in 1995 with a BA in English Literature from the University of British Columbia. He has worked as a teacher of English in Japan, where he has lived on and off, and as a writer of English lessons for Japanese websites. 'The Gargoyle' is his first book. He lives in Manitoba, Canada.
The Gargoyle
Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell.
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.
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.
Andrew Davidson links
- The Gargoyle discussion forum
- Share your experience with other readers around the world
- The Gargoyle (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Gargoyle (novel) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Amazon Rising Stars
- The Gargoyle wins Amazon Rising Stars in October 2008.
- Waterstone's Author Q&A
- Andrew Davidson answers questions on the Waterstone's website.
- Telegraph review
- Simon Baker squeezes past the hype to enjoy the work of a talented new writer
- The List review
- With so many books on all our to-read lists, brevity is a virtue. The Gargoyle flouts this with great success. Framed by the sceptical voice of a severely burned car crash victim, events swing from medieval times to the present, from frigid%u2026
- Reading Matters
- Fiction - hardcover; Canongate; 502 pages; 2008. REVIEW COPY.The Gargoyle by first-time novelist Andrew Davidson defies categorisation, because how do you categorise a book that melds a host of genres into one giant tome?
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