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Gargoyles : stories / Bill Gaston.

by Gaston, Bill, 1953-

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House of Anansi Press, 2006.

Gargoyles -- Fiction.

251 p. ; 22 cm.

I. Wrathful. Night window -- Kite trick -- Forms in winter -- II. Beneficent. Beast waters his garden of a summer's eve -- Freedom -- Work-in-progress -- Honouring honey -- III. Mercurial. Point no point -- Walk -- Green house -- Gods take off their shirts.

"In this extraordinary new work, Gaston crafts his fiction around the idea of the “gargoyle” — the concrete representation of extremes of human emotions. In Gaston’s marvelous, 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."--Publisher.

Winner of the ReLit award for Best Short Story Collection, 2007.

Canadian fiction.

Short stories, Canadian.

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