The Corset & The Jellyfish: A Conundrum of Drabbles

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<B><I>[STARRED REVIEW] Readers will find themselves delighted, intrigued, and often moved by the love, pain, and wonder of these finely written drabbles thoroughly extraordinary. </I></B><BR> <B>Kirkus</B> <BR><BR><B><I>The internationally bestselling author of </I>Griffin & Sabine<I> returns with his newest literary mystery a charming assemblage of his own illustrated stories. Each of the invitingly strange tales is paired with its own glyphic creature (perhaps created by Sabine herself).</I></B><BR><BR>Little is known of the fascinating manuscript that Nick Bantock has come to possess. It was discovered in an attic in North London, stuffed into a battered cardboard box, and unceremoniously delivered directly to Nick s doorstep. Inside the package lay one hundred evocatively absurd stories, one hundred humorous drawings of strangely familiar, quirkish glyphs, plus a cryptically poetic note signed only as HH. (Possibly the well-known, eccentric billionaire, Hamilton Hasp?)<BR><BR>In these stories-each consisting of precisely 100 words-strange creatures slip through alleyways, and eerie streets swallow people whole. Taken altogether, they may constitute a puzzle that no one has been able to solve thus far. Could there even be one missing story?<BR><BR>For those perceptive readers with a curious mind, the celebrated author of <I>Griffin & Sabine</I> cordially invites you to find your own path through his beguiling conundrum of drabbles or even to contribute one of your very own.