Gardner John. Grendel

Vintage Books Edition, 1989. — 110 p.John Gardner's philosophical fiction reveals his characters’ inner conflicts. Grendel, the first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his side of the story in a book William Gass called "one of the finest of our contemporary fictions."
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