The Summer Book
by Tove Jansson
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0954221710
- ISBN 13
- 9780954221713
- Seller
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Glebe, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Sort of Books,
Translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal,
Foreword by Esther Freud
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Lightest overall wear,
In excellent condition
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A beautiful collection of summer vignettes and the tender relationship between grandmother and granddaughter
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172 pages, 200mm x 132mm x 14mm
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100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW
Synopsis
Tove 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 Finland, a setting that would later figure in Jansson’s writing for adults and children. Jansson loved books as a child, and set out from an early age to be an artist; her first illustration was published when she was fifteen years old; four years later a picture book appeared under a pseudonym. After attending art schools in both Stockholm and Paris, she returned to Helsinki, where in 1940s and ’50s she won acclaim for her paintings and murals. From 1929 until 1953 Jansson drew humorous illustrations and political cartoons for the left-leaning anti-Fascist Finnish-Swedish magazine Garm , and it was there that what was to become Jansson’s most famous creation, Moomintroll, a hippopotamus-like character with a dreamy disposition, made his first appearance. Jansson went on to write about the adventures of Moomintroll, the Moomin family, and their curious friends in a long-running comic strip and in a series of books for children that have been translated throughout the world, inspiring films, several television series, an opera, and theme parks in Finland and Japan. Jansson also wrote novels and short stories for adults, of which Sculptor’s Daughter , The Summer Book , Sun City , The Winter Book , and Fair Play have been translated into English. In 1994 she was awarded the Prize of the Swedish Academy. Tove Jansson and her companion, the artist Tuulikki Pietilä, continued to live part-time in a cottage on the remote outer edge of the Finnish archipelago until 1991. Kathryn Davis has received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the author of many novels, including Labrador , The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf , Hell , The Walking Tour , The Thin Place , and Versailles . In 2006 she received the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis and lives in Vermont.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Library Kit (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TLK300
- Title
- The Summer Book
- Author
- Tove Jansson
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0954221710
- ISBN 13
- 9780954221713
- Publisher
- Sort of Books
- Place of Publication
- London United Kingdom
- Date Published
- May 29, 2003
- Bookseller catalogs
- Translations;
Terms of Sale
The Library Kit
About the Seller
The Library Kit
About The Library Kit
100% of book sales goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW ($2,110.30 donated as of 8th May, 2024)
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