Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, September 11, 1993 TAG: 9309140083
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 12 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Reviewed by LYNN ECKMAN
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Imaginative and intriguing, Nick Bantock's chronicle of Griffin and Sabine comes to an enchanting end in this third volume. Even without the artwork, their love story is haunting and beautiful. Because of the cards, letters and stamps included in the books, the trilogy becomes a treasure to ponder over and to savor.
After their abortive attempts to meet in London or the Sicmon Islands fail, Sabine returns home, not to peace but to the menace of Victor Frolatti. Who is he? A journalist . . . a psychologist . . . an ogre? How does he know about their relationship? Whatever Frolatti represents, he causes them to consider finding a halfway-between place in which to be together.
The last page reads, "For some years nothing was heard of Griffin and Sabine until a young doctor in Kenya received an unusual postcard from a stranger."
Anyone who knows this tale will understand and applaud its ambiguous but appropriate finale. Any romantic not acquainted with all three of its parts should spend an hour or two in this realm of dreams come true exquisitely rendered by Nick Bantock, a masterful magician and an artist with both words and pictures.
Lynn Eckman teaches at Roanoke College.
by CNB