Grendel, John Gardner romance I worked up the courage

I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries

a fantastical epic

James is consumed by guilt and sets out on a reckless path that may destroy his marriage

Cutting across humanity in all its squalor and glory

taking her over oceans and across continents

Grendel, John Gardner romance I worked up the courageThis classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic. "An extraordinary achievement."New York Times The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This is the novel William Gass called "one of the finest of our contemporary