{"product_id":"the-gargoyle-9780307388674","title":"The Gargoyle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Gargoyle\u003c\/b\u003e the mesmerizing story of one man's descent into personal hell and his quest for salvation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a dark road in the middle of the night, a car plunges into a ravine. The driver survives the crash, but his injuries confine him to a hospital burn unit. There the mysterious Marianne Engel, a sculptress of grotesques, enters his life. She insists they were lovers in medieval Germany, when he was a mercenary and she was a scribe in the monastery of Engelthal. As she spins the story of their past lives together, the man's disbelief falters; soon, even the impossible can no longer be dismissed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eANDREW DAVIDSON was born in Pinawa, Manitoba, and graduated in 1995 from the University of British Columbia with a B.A. in English literature. He has worked as a teacher in Japan, where he has lived on and off, and as a writer of English lessons for Japanese Web sites. \u003ci\u003eThe Gargoyle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe product of seven years' worth of research and composition, is his first book. Davidson lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50892396036370,"sku":"9780307388674","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_472d7b0b-b4f3-444c-9fa4-86ed8cd3d306.jpg?v=1738189461","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-gargoyle-9780307388674","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}