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1992
SABINE'S NOTEBOOK
Nick Bantock
Cover of SABINE'S NOTEBOOK

SABINE'S NOTEBOOK

In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues

by Nick Bantock

Chronicle Books · 1992

Peak rank

#4

Weeks on list

23

Chart History

#15101519921993
dashed = off the list

23 weeks on the Hardcover Fiction list, peaking at #4

Don't miss The Pharos Gate, the final volume in the Griffin & Sabine story. Published simultaneously with the 25th-anniversary edition of Griffin & Sabine, the book finally shares what happened to the lovers. Griffin—Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened. You do not dismiss a muse at a whim. If you will not join me, then I will come to you. —Sabine Sabine was supposed to be imaginary, a friend and lover that Griffin had created to soothe his loneliness. But she threatens to become embodied, to appear on his doorstep, in fact. So he runs. Griffin & Sabine, the most creative and talked-about bestseller of 1991, left readers on the edge of a precipice. With Sabine's Notebook, they begin—along with Griffin—the fall. Once again, the story is told through strangely beautiful postcards and richly decorated letters that must actually be pulled from their envelopes to be read. But this volume is also a sketchbook and diary kept by the possibly unreal Sabine, who is living in Griffin's house in London while he wanders through Europe, North Africa, and Asia, backwards through layers of ancient civilizations—and of himself. Filled with her delicately macabre drawings and notations, the notebook adds a darker element of visual intrigue to their complex and mysterious world. For the thousands who finished Griffin & Sabine and asked, "What happened next?," this second volume in the quartet provides the answers—but raises new and even more haunting questions of its own.

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Details

ISBN-13
9780811801805
ISBN-10
0811801802
Published
1992
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Categories
Fiction

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