The Gargoyle
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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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Doubleday, c2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 468 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780385524940
0385524943
SUBJECTS
Dante Alighieri, -- 1265-1321 -- Translations into German -- Fiction.
Burns and scalds -- Patients -- Fiction.
Traffic accident victims -- Fiction.
Hospital wards -- Fiction.
Reincarnation -- Fiction.
Stone carvers -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.