The Corset & the Jellyfish: A Conundrum of Drabbles Bantock NickPevná vazba

"[Bantock] is a highly imaginative and ebulliently romantic illustrator and storyteller." --Booklist

The internationally bestselling author of Griffin & Sabine returns with his newest literary mystery--a charming assemblage of his illustrated stories. These invitingly strange "drabbles," each paired with its own comical creature, each total exactly one-hundred words. His tales, enjoyable in any sequence, compel the reader to bask in ambiguity--or even help to solve the puzzle therein.

Little is known of the fascinating manuscript that Nick Bancock has come to possess. It was discovered in an attic in North London, stuffed into a battered cardboard box, and unceremoniously delivered directly to Bantock.

Inside the package lay one hundred evocatively absurd stories, one hundred humorous drawings of quirkish glyphs, and a cyptically