{"product_id":"gargoyles-bill-gaston-9780887847769","title":"Gargoyles","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere is the best of Bill Gaston's stories since the publication of his Giller Prize nominated collection, \u003cem\u003eMount Appetite\u003c\/em\u003e (2002). In this extraordinary work, Gaston crafts his fiction around the idea of the gargoyle -- the concrete representation of extremes of human emotions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003cem\u003eGargoyles\u003c\/em\u003e shows one of our best writers at the top of his form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bill Gaston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0887847765\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780887847769\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Astoria\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d","brand":"Bill Gaston","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46383875195135,"sku":"9780887847769","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a3bca14d-1ab9-4979-a988-346ec78f5faf.jpg?v=1733281933","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gargoyles-bill-gaston-9780887847769","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}