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The Gargoyle
- Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
- Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
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The Gargoyle
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Publisher's Summary
The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he 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 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.
A beautiful and compelling, but clearly unhinged, sculptress of gargoyles by the name of Marianne Engel appears at the foot of his bed and insists that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling, he was a badly injured mercenary and she was a nun and scribe in the famed monastery of Engelthal who nursed him back to health. As she spins their tale in Scheherazade fashion and relates equally mesmerizing stories of deathless love in Japan, Iceland, Italy, and England, he finds himself drawn back to life - and, finally, in love. He is released into Marianne's care and takes up residence in her huge stone house.
But all is not well. For one thing, the pull of his past sins becomes ever more powerful as the morphine he is prescribed becomes ever more addictive. For another, Marianne receives word from God that she has only 27 sculptures left to complete - and her time on earth will be finished.
Already an international literary sensation, The Gargoyle is an Inferno for our time. It will have you believing in the impossible.
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- Sarah O'Leary
- 2021-04-03
Brilliant read 📚
Bloody brilliant read. I have found myself wanting to read or listen to this lovely book agian and agian.
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- Michelermt
- 2022-12-23
Best book I have EVER read
This book was super amazing. It was intense. It felt real, and I fell in love with the characters. I am hoping the author wrote another book because I’ll read anything from him.
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- VS
- 2022-10-01
Interesting!
It was an interesting story, I enjoyed it. Recommend if you like fantasy and real life mixed in a story.
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- Kathy Nelson
- 2021-02-26
Best book ever now best narration
This book has been my favourite for years and when I finally found an audio recording I bought without listening to a sample. My initial thought about the narration was that the pace was too slow. That fear left as I was sucked in and transported through time on a journey of transformation and love. Spend your money or your credit. You won’t be sorry!
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-05-06
Takes a second but gets you hooked
A well crafted homage to classic literature with a modern take. The hook to the main story is somewhat of a slow burn but it is an inferno by the end. The voice acting was also very well done, especially considering there was Latin, German, Japanese, and Icelandic writing which, to my untrained ear, was well spoken.
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- Celia
- 2022-06-03
LOVE
I could not shut the book off.
The moment it ended, I started it again.
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- Mindy B
- 2021-12-02
was an interesting listen
I loved it, which surprised me. something I woukd never think to listen too. definitely worth the 19hour listen.
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- The singing gardener
- 2021-12-27
A Slow “Burn”…
What a beautifully engaging novel!. Wonderful prose. I read the physical novel while the audible version played; my favourite way to read most novels. Extremely imaginative and a simply lovely love story!.
I’m anticipating what his next novel will be about. The narrator was superb.
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- Ali
- 2023-03-29
Awesome
The performance and story are stunning. Lovely little vignettes about love wrapped in an awesome overarching story
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- Tim jones
- 2021-10-26
drawn out
i found it boring ..10 hours in and ..nothing happening ..well written but and evocative buti just got bored .
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