The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy Boxed Set
The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy Boxed Set: Griffin & Sabine/Sabine's Notebook/The Golden Mean Nick Bantock,
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 0811806960
Edition: Hardcover; 1994-10-01
Summary:
Few books are more romantic than this trilogy, nor more surreal.
Griffin Moss is a rather doleful, lonesome, gaunt, and haunted
postcard designer in London. Sabine Strohem is an illustrator of
stamps living on an island in the South Pacific. One day Griffin gets
an extraordinary letter from Sabine revealing that she knows all
kinds of things about his life and work--somehow, she can share his
soul from afar. They start exchanging love letters, yet it remains an
open question whether Griffin and Sabine are two hearts that
mystically beat as one, or simply illusory. "You're a figment of my
imagination," Griffin accuses Sabine. "You cannot turn me into a
phantom because you are frightened," Sabine replies. Phantom or soul
mate, Sabine is pursued across the globe by Griffin in an
increasingly impassioned fashion, and the mysteries deepen. The
legendarily popular trilogy of books containing the Griffin-Sabine
correspondence literally contains the correspondence: postcards,
front and back, and letters in envelopes pasted into the book, which
the reader must open and read--a temptation few can resist. Nick
Bantock's story was way ahead of the computer game Myst, with which
it shares a moody allure. Bantock designed hundreds of book covers
(for Philip Roth, John Updike, and others) before he fled London for
a lovely island off the west coast of Canada with his rather
Sabine-like artist wife and became improbably famous by dreaming up
this trilogy. His artwork is gorgeous, and countless romances have
been intensified by exposure to that of Griffin and Sabine. --Tim
Appelo
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