Notes from an Island
| AUTHOR | Jansson, Tove; Chee, Alexander |
| PUBLISHER | Timber Press (OR) (10/22/2024) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Hardcover (Hardcover) |
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"If you never see me again in life after this book is published, it is because I left to find an island of my own at last." ?Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel "Tove Jansson was a genius, a woman of profound wisdom and great artistry." --Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson--author of the iconic novel The Summer Book and the beloved Moomin series--built a cabin on a treeless island in the Gulf of Finland. For thirty years, Tove and her beloved partner, Tuulikki "Tooti" Pietilä, lived, painted, and wrote, energized by flora, fauna, the shifting seascapes, and solitude and shifting seascapes. Jansson's spare, quirky prose, and Tooti's subtle artwork combine to form a work of meditative beauty. Notes from an Island is both a beautiful chronicle of a rugged ecology and an intimate collaboration between to artists in love with each other--and the island itself. This edition also includes Jansson's essay The Island, described by Pulitzer Prize finalist Hernan Diaz as "...a short story, an essay, and a prose poem ... the text seems to change following mysterious tides from a timeless present to an urgent past." Praise for Tove Jansson's Work
"It could be said that everything she wrote is, in one way or another, about the creative interactions between art and reality or art and nature." --The Guardian "It's hard to describe the astonishing achievement of Jansson's artistry."--Ali Smith, author of Gliff and How to Be Both "Her style is not at all 'poetic'--quite the contrary. It is prose of the very highest order; it is pure prose. Through its quiet clarity we see unreachable depths, threatening darkness, promised treasures."--Ursula K. LeGuin, The Guardian
"It could be said that everything she wrote is, in one way or another, about the creative interactions between art and reality or art and nature." --The Guardian "It's hard to describe the astonishing achievement of Jansson's artistry."--Ali Smith, author of Gliff and How to Be Both "Her style is not at all 'poetic'--quite the contrary. It is prose of the very highest order; it is pure prose. Through its quiet clarity we see unreachable depths, threatening darkness, promised treasures."--Ursula K. LeGuin, The Guardian
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ISBN-13:
9781643264790
ISBN-10:
1643264796
Binding:
Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
128
Carton Quantity:
28
Product Dimensions:
5.50 x 0.72 x 8.01 inches
Weight:
0.77 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Price on Product,
Illustrated
Country of Origin:
CN
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Nature | Essays
Nature | Women
Nature | Memoirs
Dewey Decimal:
B
Library of Congress Control Number:
2024404908
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"If you never see me again in life after this book is published, it is because I left to find an island of my own at last." ?Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel "Tove Jansson was a genius, a woman of profound wisdom and great artistry." --Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson--author of the iconic novel The Summer Book and the beloved Moomin series--built a cabin on a treeless island in the Gulf of Finland. For thirty years, Tove and her beloved partner, Tuulikki "Tooti" Pietilä, lived, painted, and wrote, energized by flora, fauna, the shifting seascapes, and solitude and shifting seascapes. Jansson's spare, quirky prose, and Tooti's subtle artwork combine to form a work of meditative beauty. Notes from an Island is both a beautiful chronicle of a rugged ecology and an intimate collaboration between to artists in love with each other--and the island itself. This edition also includes Jansson's essay The Island, described by Pulitzer Prize finalist Hernan Diaz as "...a short story, an essay, and a prose poem ... the text seems to change following mysterious tides from a timeless present to an urgent past." Praise for Tove Jansson's Work
"It could be said that everything she wrote is, in one way or another, about the creative interactions between art and reality or art and nature." --The Guardian "It's hard to describe the astonishing achievement of Jansson's artistry."--Ali Smith, author of Gliff and How to Be Both "Her style is not at all 'poetic'--quite the contrary. It is prose of the very highest order; it is pure prose. Through its quiet clarity we see unreachable depths, threatening darkness, promised treasures."--Ursula K. LeGuin, The Guardian
"It could be said that everything she wrote is, in one way or another, about the creative interactions between art and reality or art and nature." --The Guardian "It's hard to describe the astonishing achievement of Jansson's artistry."--Ali Smith, author of Gliff and How to Be Both "Her style is not at all 'poetic'--quite the contrary. It is prose of the very highest order; it is pure prose. Through its quiet clarity we see unreachable depths, threatening darkness, promised treasures."--Ursula K. LeGuin, The Guardian
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Introduction by:
Chee, Alexander
ALEXANDER CHEEwon a Whiting Award for his first novel, Edinburgh, and is a recipient of the NEA Fellowship in Fiction and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Ledig House, and Civitella Ranieri. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Slate, and NPR, among others, and he is a Contributing Editor at The New Republic. He lives in New York City.
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