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Gargoyle Hunters : A Novel by John Freeman Gill (2017, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-101101946881
ISBN-139781101946886
eBay Product ID (ePID)229013587
Product Key Features
Book TitleGargoyle Hunters : a Novel
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2017
TopicPsychological, Urban, Family Life, Literary, Coming of Age
GenreFiction
AuthorJohn Freeman Gill
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight22.8 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2016-012828
ReviewsAdvance Praise for The Gargoyle Hunters : A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick "In the spirit of Jonathan Lethem and J. D. Salinger, John Freeman Gill strips the mask off New York City in this poignant, incisive, irreverent novel about fatherhood, art, obsession, creation, and destruction. This novel salvages so many things, not least our abiding relationship with the past. This is a wonderful, compelling debut." -- Colum McCann , National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic " The Gargoyle Hunters is wonderful, strong, funny, with yards and yards of beautiful writing. Its pages are full of reading pleasures... Extraordinary." -- Annie Proulx , Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Shipping News and "Brokeback Mountain" " John Freeman Gill's The Gargoyle Hunters is a brilliant evocation of many things: the world of a thirteen-year-old boy, with its mixture of thoughtless destructiveness and wrenching emotion; a son's relationship with a charismatic, architecture-loving, thieving father; the endless changes to timeless Manhattan during the crumbling, tumultuous 1970s. Funny, heartbreaking, elegiac, unforgettable--David Mitchell's Black Swan Green meets E. B. White's Here Is New York ." -- Gretchen Rubin , #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Happiness Project " The Gargoyle Hunters is that rarest of all animals--a beautifully written literary novel that also just happens to be a rollicking, cinematic, ripsnortingly funny tale with action sequences as exciting as those of Hollywood's best films. Ever wonder how a father and son could possibly steal an entire New York City building, cornice to curb? Here's your chance to find out." -- Doug Liman , director of The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and Edge of Tomorrow "Funny and touching... In much the same way that Donna Tartt and J. D. Salinger capture the city in their stories, Gill has made New York City one of his most vivid main characters. In mordant prose, he has taken a wrecking ball as much to the human heart as he has to the priceless gems of the city's past." -- Mary Morris , Anisfield-Wolf Book Award-winning author of The Jazz Palace, Advance Praise for The Gargoyle Hunters : "In the spirit of Jonathan Lethem and J.D. Salinger, John Freeman Gill strips the mask off New York City in this poignant, incisive, irreverent novel about fatherhood, art, obsession, creation and destruction. This novel salvages so many things, not least our abiding relationship with the past. This is a wonderful, compelling debut." -- Colum McCann , National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic " The Gargoyle Hunters is wonderful, strong, and funny, with yards and yards of beautiful writing. Its pages are full of reading pleasures.... Extraordinary." -- Annie Proulx , Pulitzer Prize-and National Book Award-winning author of The Shipping News and "Brokeback Mountain" " John Freeman Gill's The Gargoyle Hunters is a brilliant evocation of many things: the world of a thirteen-year-old boy, with its mixture of thoughtless destructiveness and wrenching emotion; a son's relationship with a charismatic, architecture-loving, thieving father; the endless changes to timeless Manhattan during the crumbling, tumultuous 1970s. Funny, heartbreaking, elegiac, unforgettable--David Mitchell's Black Swan Green meets E. B. White's Here Is New York ." -- Gretchen Rubin , #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project, Advance Praise for The Gargoyle Hunters : A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick A Booklist Best New Adult Fiction of 2017 Pick "In the spirit of Jonathan Lethem and J. D. Salinger, John Freeman Gill strips the mask off New York City in this poignant, incisive, irreverent novel about fatherhood, art, obsession, creation, and destruction. This novel salvages so many things, not least our abiding relationship with the past. This is a wonderful, compelling debut." -- Colum McCann , National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic " The Gargoyle Hunters is wonderful, strong, funny, with yards and yards of beautiful writing. Its pages are full of reading pleasures... Extraordinary." -- Annie Proulx , Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Shipping News and "Brokeback Mountain" " John Freeman Gill's The Gargoyle Hunters is a brilliant evocation of many things: the world of a thirteen-year-old boy, with its mixture of thoughtless destructiveness and wrenching emotion; a son's relationship with a charismatic, architecture-loving, thieving father; the endless changes to timeless Manhattan during the crumbling, tumultuous 1970s. Funny, heartbreaking, elegiac, unforgettable--David Mitchell's Black Swan Green meets E. B. White's Here Is New York ." -- Gretchen Rubin , #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Happiness Project " The Gargoyle Hunters is that rarest of all animals--a beautifully written literary novel that also just happens to be a rollicking, cinematic, ripsnortingly funny tale with action sequences as exciting as those of Hollywood's best films. Ever wonder how a father and son could possibly steal an entire New York City building, cornice to curb? Here's your chance to find out." -- Doug Liman , director of The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and Edge of Tomorrow "Funny and touching... In much the same way that Donna Tartt and J. D. Salinger capture the city in their stories, Gill has made New York City one of his most vivid main characters. In mordant prose, he has taken a wrecking ball as much to the human heart as he has to the priceless gems of the city's past." -- Mary Morris , Anisfield-Wolf Book Award-winning author of The Jazz Palace "A stellar debut ... Gill, who is a noted expert on historical architecture, brings a DeLillo-like eye for detail to his descriptions of the city while also perfectly capturing the father-son relationship in all its warmth, hero-worship, and, ultimately, disappointment. A bildungsroman rich with symbolism, wistful memory, and unabashed longing, this is a remarkably tender love letter to a city and historical fiction par excellence. For fans of Donna Tartt and Colum McCann." -- Booklist, starred review , "The Gargoyle Hunters is wonderful, strong, and funny, with yards and yards of beautiful writing. Its pages are full of reading pleasures....extraordinary." --Annie Proulx "In the spirit of Jonathan Lethem and J. D. Salinger, John Freeman Gill strips the mask off New York City in this poignant, incisive, irreverent novel about fatherhood, art, obsession, creation and destruction. This novel salvages so many things, not least our abiding relationship with the past. This is a wonderful, compelling debut." --Colum McCann "The Gargoyle Hunters is a brilliant evocation of many things: the world of a thirteen-year old boy, with its mixture of thoughtless destructiveness and wrenching emotion; a son's relationship with a charismatic, architecture loving, thieving father; the endless changes to timeless Manhattan during the crumbling, mug-money 1970s. Funny, heartbreaking, elegiac, unforgettable--David Mitchell's Black Swan Green meets E. B. White's Here is New York." --Gretchen Rubin
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SynopsisHilarious and poignant, The Gargoyle Hunters is a love letter to a vanishing city, and a deeply emotional story of fathers and sons. Intimately portraying New York's elbow-jostling relationship with time, the novel solves the mystery of a brazen and seemingly impossible architectural heist--the theft of an entire historic Manhattan building--that stunned the city and made the front page of The New York Times in 1974. With both his family and his city fracturing, thirteen-year-old Griffin Watts is recruited into his estranged father's illicit and dangerous architectural salvage business. Small and nimble, Griffin is charged with stealing exuberantly expressive nineteenth-century architectural sculptures--gargoyles--right off the faces of unsung tenements and iconic skyscrapers all over town. As his father explains it, these gargoyles, carved and cast by immigrant artisans during the city's architectural glory days, are an endangered species in this era of sweeping urban renewal. Desperate both to connect with his father and to raise cash to pay the mortgage on the brownstone where he lives with his mother and sister, Griffin is slow to recognize that his father's deepening obsession with preserving the architectural treasures of Beaux Arts New York is also a destructive force, imperiling Griffin's friendships, his relationship with his very first girlfriend, and even his life. As his father grows increasingly possessive of both Griffin's mother and his scavenged touchstones of the lost city, Griffin must learn how to build himself into the person he wants to become and discover which parts of his life can be salvaged--and which parts must be let go. Maybe loss, he reflects, is the only thing no one can ever take away from you. Tender, funny, and achingly sad, The Gargoyle Hunters introduces an extraordinary new novelist.
LC Classification NumberPS3606.R44547G37
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