Fair Play
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Fair Play is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-won and exhilarating.
Mari is a writer and Jonna is an artist, and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building, their studios connected by a long attic passageway. They have argued, worked, and laughed together for decades. Yet they’ve never really stopped taking each other by surprise. Fair Play shows us Mari and Jona’s intertwined lives as they watch Fassbinder films and Westerns, critique each other’s work, spend time on a solitary island (recognizable to readers of Jansson’s The Summer Book), travel through the American Southwest, and turn life into nothing less than art.
Mari is a writer and Jonna is an artist, and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building, their studios connected by a long attic passageway. They have argued, worked, and laughed together for decades. Yet they’ve never really stopped taking each other by surprise. Fair Play shows us Mari and Jona’s intertwined lives as they watch Fassbinder films and Westerns, critique each other’s work, spend time on a solitary island (recognizable to readers of Jansson’s The Summer Book), travel through the American Southwest, and turn life into nothing less than art.
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Street Date:
10/17/2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781590176856
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Tove Jansson. (2012). Fair Play. New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Tove Jansson. 2012. Fair Play. New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Tove Jansson, Fair Play. New York Review Books, 2012.
MLA Citation (style guide)Tove Jansson. Fair Play. New York Review Books, 2012.
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In this novel brilliantly translated from the Swedish by Teal, Finnish-born author Jansson, whose Moomin childrens books may be familiar to some readers, gives us a spare, rich collection of vignettes. A novel, a short story collection, and an autobiographical journey, Fair Play centers on the lives of two creative womenMari, the writer, and Jonna, the artist. In just over 135 pages, we learn of the womens lifelong partnership, their studios joined by an attic passageway, their love of old western movies, and their summer cottage on an island somewhere between Finland and Estonia. In one episode, the two elderly partners take a trip to Phoenix, where they ingratiate themselves with the locals; both comical and touching, Mari and Jonna are foreigners but entirely at home among strangers. For those who have yet to discover Jansson, her writing is a true pleasure, and her characters, although sparse on dialogue, are complex, passionate, and deeply empathetic. Recommend Jansson to readers of Anita Brookners similarly introspective novels.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)
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