The Gryphon King

The Gryphon King, Tom Deitz, isbn:0-380-75506-8

The ren faire college crowd meets Tir na nog. Its written well, before mass market paperbacks were only made on an eighth grade reading level.
A man donates his personal library to the University of Georgia. He dies before he can have a chance to save a book and a sword from being excluded from the collection. They are donated. A student drops the book and a manuscript not seen for over five hundred years is found. It is a play about St. George and the devil. Nice huh? Its well worth it for the retelling of that fable alone. The book blends the pressures of dissertations with the King of the faeries (and a war between the true king and the thief) and the local renn faire. Add gryphons, weird fog and some truly dramatic characters and this book is definitely a fun read. Mr. Deitz has a wry sense of humor and an appreciation for the dramatic effect.
I read it in nine hours, mostly because I went back and reread the parts that made me laugh out loud.