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Bantock, author of the Griffen & Sabine trilogy, tells the story of the protagonist creating a collage-painting while rediscovering his grandfather's artistic influences. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

This is the fourth volume in the series "in which the extraordinary correspondence of Griffin & Sabine is rediscovered." The story is written and illustrated by Bantock who uses postcards and letters in an intriguing correspondence among the characters involved in the mysterious story. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Donna Seaman in Booklist, November 1, 1999 captures the essence of this book."This is the slightest of Bantock's clever, illustrated novels. The author of the Griffin and Sabine trilogy and The Forgetting Room (1997), Bantock combines inventive collages with lightweight if witty and sweet metaphysical fables. This tale is told by Non, the curator of the museum in Purgatory. Purgatory is a city, Non explains, a city that is in constant flux, forever changing its shape, its buildings, its trees, and its light and colors. A place of ambiguity, it is where souls come to re-evaluate their lives. It seems that we are essentially conduits for information, which we "deposit" into the collective consciousness via our dreams. Therefore, the question each soul must answer before they leave is whether he or she has "contributed enough to the greater consciousness" to go to a Utopian State, or, failing that, to a Dystopia. Non's job is to watch over the souls of collectors and to house their...