| Record Number |
700898 |
| ISBN |
9781590173787 (pbk.) |
| 1590173783 (alk. paper) |
| Author |
Jansson, Tove |
| Title |
Fair play / Tove Jansson ; translation from the Swedish by Thomas Teal ; introduction by Ali Smith. |
| Publisher/Date |
New York : New York Review Books, [2010] |
| Pagination etc. |
xiii, 100 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
New York Review Books classics New York Review Books classics |
| New York Review Books classics New York Review Books classics |
| Contents note |
First published as Rent spel in Finland: Schildts, c1982. |
| Machine generated contents note: Changing Pictures -- Videomania -- The Hunter -- Catfishing -- One Time in June -- Fog -- Killing George -- Travels with a Konica -- B-Western -- In the Great City of Phoenix -- Wladyslaw -- Fireworks -- Cemeteries -- Jonna's Pupil -- Viktoria -- Stars. |
| Summary Note |
Two women, both artists, no longer young, live and work on opposite sides of a large apartment building, their studios connected by an attic passageway. They have loved and argued for decades, long enough to anticipate the other's next words and to guess her next move. Yet no matter how many times they've played the game, it is always capable of surprising them. Tove Jansson tells the women's story in a series of brief, spare episodes, which bear the fitness of parable and the nuance of portraiture. We see the two as they watch Fassbinder films and B Westerns, critique each other's works in progress, spend time on a solitary island , and travel through the American Southwest. The type of love story that is rarely told, this novel is a depiction of contentment, hard-won and exhilarating. |
| Subject |
Female friendship -- Fiction |
| Women artists -- Finland -- Helsinki -- Fiction |
| Helsinki (Finland) -- Fiction |
| Psychological fiction. |
| Added Author |
Teal, Thomas |
