The gargoyle
By: Andrew Davidson
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780385524940
Subjects: Reincarnation; Stone carvers; Fiction; Patients; Hospital wards; Traffic accident victims; Translations into German; Burns and scalds
Description: A very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, crashes his car 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. Then a beautiful and compelling, but clearly unhinged, sculptress of gargoyles by the name of Marianne Engel appears at the foot of his bed and tells him that they were once lovers in medieval Germany--From publisher description.