Griffin and Sabine
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Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence is a novel by Nick Bantock, published in 1991 by Chronicle Books in the United States and Raincoast Books in Canada. The story is told through a series of letters and postcards between the two main characters.
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[edit] Plot summary
Griffin Moss is an artist living in London who makes postcards for a living. He is unhappy and lonely, though he unaware of these feelings. His life is changed forever when he receives a cryptic postcard from Sabine Strohem, a woman he has never met. Like Griffin, she is an artist (she illustrates postage stamps) and comes from a small group of islands known as the Sicmans. The two begin to correspond regularly.
Griffin comes to realize that he is in love with Sabine, who reciprocate his feelings, and that they are soulmates. However, his growing uncertainty as to Sabine's true nature and the changes her presence in his life has brought to him develops into fear and he ends up rejecting her offer for him to come see her in person. He comes to the conclusion that Sabine is a figment of his imagination, created from his own loneliness. It appears to be true until another postcard arrives from Sabine with an ominous promise that if he will not come to her, she will go to him.
Griffin, at the book's conclusion, has disappeared.
[edit] Sequels
The correspondence of Griffin and Sabine continues in Sabine's Notebook and The Golden Mean. Their story is expanded in a second trilogy, known as the Morning Star Trilogy.
[edit] Other Media
The books were adapted into a CD-ROM game Ceremony of Innocence by Peter Gabriel's company RealWorld. Bantock also adapted the story into a play.
[edit] See also
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