Gargoyles

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2006

ISBN-13: 9780887848582

<p>Here is the best of Bill Gaston's stories since the publication of his Giller Prize nominated collection, <em>Mount Appetite</em> (2002). In this extraordinary work, Gaston crafts his fiction around the idea of the gargoyle -- the concrete representation of extremes of human emotions.</p> <p>In Gaston's marvellous, riotous, Rabelaisian world, Gargoyles are physical manifestations of the disfigurements and contortions to which we human beings subject ourselves. Indeed, as Gaston wrote each story, he sketched out a distinct gargoyle to look down over it. For that reason, each story in this collection has a strange and unique guardian spirit whose sometimes benevolent, and sometimes malevolent, presence informs the characters and their actions. <em>Gargoyles</em> shows one of our best writers at the top of his form.</p>