The Full Story

Fragments of life. Fictions of a moment. A book of revelations in miniature. In this hauntingly beautiful collaboration between writer Chips Hardy and illustrator Oscar Grillo, The Full Story offers a genre-defying sequence of one-page narratives--each a glimpse into a life, a death, a joke, or an epiphany. Hardy's tales are lean and luminous, by turns wry, tragic, surreal and piercingly humane. Grillo's artwork answers them with a visual world just as unpredictable--delirious, tender, uncanny, sublime. Together, they compose a new kind of storytelling: elliptical, illustrated literature for the fractured age. One story per spread. One image. One moment. And yet, across these fragments, a deeper coherence gathers: the shock of being alive, the absurdity of the everyday, the poignancy of what passes. Hardy--co-creator of the acclaimed television series Taboo, and winner of Writers' Guild and British Comedy Awards--writes with the compression of poetry and the perspective of a playwright. Grillo--winner of Cannes, BAFTA, and Oscar accolades--delivers a visual counterpoint that's as layered and enigmatic as the tales themselves. A work of rare invention and emotional scope, The Full Story invites you to read slowly, look closely, and return often. The Full Story is issued in a single clothbound hardcover, presented in four distinct dust jacket designs.