Гаргульи/Gargouille/Gargoyle — 4 книги

Министерство магии терпит поражение за поражением в битвах с Волан-де-Мортом. Даже маглы страдают от второй войны - каждый день происходят катастрофы, причины которых никому не ведомы.
Но и на войне жизнь продолжается. Гарри, Рон и Гермиона, как и все шестнадцатилетние, учатся, ходят на вечеринки и влюбляются. Однако опасность всё ближе. Несмотря на все усилия Дамблдора по защите школы, в Хогвартсе происходят очень странные события.
Омут памяти на этот раз откроет Гарри самую большую тайну Темного Лорда, и ради того, чтобы победить, Гарри вынужден пожертвовать самым дорогим... Какую сторону в этой войне примет загадочный Принц-полукровка?

Министерство магии терпит поражение за поражением в битвах с Волан-де-Мортом. Даже маглы страдают от второй войны - каждый день происходят катастрофы, причины которых никому не…

In this remarkable collection, Bill Gaston crafts his fiction around the idea of the gargoyle — the concrete representation of extremes of human emotions. This marvelous, riotous, Rabelaisian world contains gargoyles that are physical manifestations of the disfigurements and contortions to which human beings subject themselves. Each of the collection's 12 stories has a strange and unique guardian spirit whose sometimes benevolent, sometimes malevolent presence informs the characters and their actions. A boy struggles with self-image and the need to fit in. A grieving parent tries to prevent others from making his mistake; tragedy ensues. A vengeful son settles a score with mom and her new lover. Other stories focus on familial delight, as well as discord in the lives of an over-the-top artist, a drunken uncle, and a bitter writer. All show one of Canada’s finest writers at the top of his form.

In this remarkable collection, Bill Gaston crafts his fiction around the idea of the gargoyle — the concrete representation of extremes of human emotions. This marvelous, riotous,…

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 twenty-seven sculptures left to complete — and her time on earth will be finished.

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…

Невероятный сплав технического триллера и психологической фэнтези. Драконов собирают на фабриках, грузы перевозят странные чудовища, а маленькая девчонка - то ли фея, то ли нет - похищает старого железного дракона и улетает в неизвестный, злой и прекрасный мир войн и любви... В книгу включена также статья "В традиции...", рассказывающая о современной американской фэнтези.

Невероятный сплав технического триллера и психологической фэнтези. Драконов собирают на фабриках, грузы перевозят странные чудовища, а маленькая девчонка - то ли фея, то ли нет -…