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What E.L. Doctorow's World's Fair did for the New York of the 1930s, this evocative debut novel does for the vividly crumbling New York of the 1970s. Hilarious and poignant, it is a love letter to a vanishing city, and a deeply emotional story of fathers and sons. 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 19th-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 Griffin lives with his mother and sister, he 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 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. From the Hardcover edition.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Plný název: Gargoyle Hunters
• Podnázev: A novel
• Autor: John Freeman Gill
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 352
• EAN: 9781524711139
• ISBN: 1524711136
• ID: 15181099
• Nakladatelství: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Hmotnost: 426 g
• Rozměry: 157 × 235 × 28 mm
• Datum vydání: 21. March 2017

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