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Fair Play (New York Review Books Classics) by Tove Jansson; Ali Smith; Thomas Teal; OverDrive, Inc is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"So what can happen when Tove Jansson turns her attention to her own favourite subjects, love and work, in the form of this novel about two women, lifelong partners and friends? Expect something philosophically calm - and discreetly radical. Its publication is cause for huge celebration." Ali Smith, from her Introduction to Fair Play What mattered most to Tove Jansson, she explained in her eighties, was work and love, a sentiment she echoes in this tender and original novel. Translated for the first time into English, Fair Play portrays a love between two older women, a writer and artist, as they work side-by-side in their Helsinki studios, travel together and share summers on a remote island. In the generosity and respect they show each other and the many small shifts they make to accommodate each other's creativity we are shown a relationship both heartening and truly progressive.About the AuthorTove Jansson (1914–2001) was born in Helsinki into Finland’s Swedish-speaking minority. Her father was a sculptor and her mother a graphic designer and illustrator. Winters were spent in the family’s art-filled studio and summers in a fisherman’s cottage on the shore of the Gulf of Finlan

Who reads Fair Play (New York Review Books Classics)?

Author

Tove Jansson; Ali Smith; Thomas Teal; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781590173787

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.5 / 5 (223 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14