{"product_id":"9781590173787","title":"Fair Play","description":"\u003cp\u003eA New York Review Books Original\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFair Play\u003c\/i\u003e is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-won and exhilarating. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eFair Play \u003c\/i\u003eshows 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Summer Book\u003c\/i\u003e), travel through the American Southwest, and turn life into nothing less than art. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tove Jansson","offers":[{"title":"New York Review Books |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2011-03-15","offer_id":44150900228351,"sku":"9781590173787","price":21.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/products\/BNCImageAPI_25df8708-0c12-4d0e-9037-ba429a10854c.jpg?v=1676759059","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781590173787","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}