Wednesday, 01 July 2009

• Andrew Davidson - The Gargoyle

  
  

  The Gargoyle By Andrew Davidson
  A Book Review
  

  
  

  Utterly breathtaking.
  
  
  

  
       This is Andrew Davidson's premiere novel that took him seven years to write, because of all the research he had to do for its content. It is rumored that the publisher paid him between $1.5 million and $2 million for this book, which if in fact true would make his book the highest paid for novel in all of Canada.
  
  

  But I found out about this novel from a fellow Xangan, on a past artistic entry entitled:
  Gargoyles. Not Demons.
  
  
  

  
  

  This book is not for the faint of heart, but it is a story of redemption that fits into so many genres. It is a story of love, of adventure, and of realistic horror that any of us could possibly someday face. Could you imagine waking up from a car accident and not be allowed a mirror so you don't have to see the monster you've become?
  

  
  

  Plot (no spoilers):
  

       The story begins with the main character suffering in a car accident where he is severely burned and sent to a burn ward to recover. Before this accident, he was a porn star, and his life revolved around drugs, alcohol, women, and hatred. It is only after his accident that he sees the beauty in things and the love in people. While he is in the burn ward, he meets Marianne Engel. She is a woman with a mental disorder who is convinced that she has been alive for several hundred years, that the narrator is her love from a past life, and that she has several hearts within her body which she must release with each gargoyle she creates. Marianne tells the main character these incredible stories and when he prepares to leave his burn ward, he goes to live with her. But with his addiction for morphine and Marianne's insane habits, what will her love render in the end?
  
  

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