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Title: Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence by Nick Bantock ISBN: 1-879371-42-1 Publisher: Publishing Mills Pub. Date: 01 November, 1992 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.63 (41 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The coolest book!!
Comment: I'm a student, and my art teacher had this book on display for us. I read the first couple of pages and asked if I could take it home-where I quickly devoured it's beautiful art and awesome story. I can't wait to read the second and third book. It made me want to write letters with a fountain pen like Sabine does. I loved the story because I feel a little the same way about a person I email all the time, but have never met. If you're thinking about reading this book, I urge you!!
Rating: 4
Summary: For nosy romantics . . .
Comment: GRIFFIN & SABINE is the ultimate gift for the naturally curious. This peek into the correspondence between two people - with letters to open, postcards to read, handwriting to decipher - gives the reader the sensation of having stumbled upon a romantic mystery to which only the individual reader is privvy. The story is nothing much, but the discovery of it is exquisite. The art used to development the concept is engaging and not at all cutesy. Because of its interactive nature, this book feels intimately known, privately owned, a secret kept closed between the covers.
This is a great gift book. If you are looking for substantial reading, skip this, but if you want a diversion, something to explore and take in visually, this book is for you.
Rating: 4
Summary: Lovely, but More of an Objet d¿Art than a Book
Comment: This book is a wholly original piece of imagination that engages you on a variety of different planes. Each page is a postcard or letter between a woman on a tiny south Pacific island who designs stamps (not much mail where she is but the stamps are popular with collectors) and a man in London who designs postcards whom she has never met but whose paintings she can "watch" from 13,000 miles away as they take shape. But it is not words you read, it's pictures of words because each page is a brilliant piece of art representing a postcard, front and back. And sometimes an envelope into which your fingers, tingling with anticipation, reach to pull out a letter or a typed and folded page, thereby engaging you in the story and the art. And because each of the two characters is a gifted artist, the postcard images are splendid, ranging from whimsical to brooding. What is the story, which ends in a mystery, all about? I don't know, but then, you don't have to explain art, which may be the point the author/painter is making. The story is short (you will read it in half an hour or less), and hardly a literary heavyweight. But if you're like me, you'll want to take this book off the shelf and enjoy its pages and letters over and over. In the end it just might give you years of pleasure.
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Title: Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues by Nick Bantock ISBN: 0811801802 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes by Nick Bantock ISBN: 0811802981 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Gryphon: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Is Rediscovered by Nick Bantock ISBN: 0811831620 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Alexandria: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Unfolds by Nick Bantock ISBN: 081183140X Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Morning Star by Nick Bantock ISBN: 081183199X Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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