The Gargoyle Hunters

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 , No.1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project From the Hardcover edition.