Sun City [Paperback]

Tove Jansson (Author), Thomas Teal (Translator)

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Text: English, Swedish (translation)

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Pantheon Books (1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394499077
• ISBN-13: 978-0394499079
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,480,780 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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TOVE JANSSON (1914-2001) is revered around the world as one of the foremost children's authors of the twentieth century for her illustrated Moomin chapter books.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ascerbic and accurate, September 8, 2002

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Annette Hrisko-Allen (pdx,usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sun City (Paperback)

Set in a private Floridian rest home called the Berkley Arms, "Sun City" is a tale of how many of America's elderly are spending their last days.

Long admired for her "Moomin" books, Tove Jansson writes about the daily lives of a handful of retirees and the staff that provides for them. There's Thomson, the woman-hating recluse whose hobby is to write scathing reviews in the margins of library books before returning them; Mrs. Rubenstein, who believes enjoyment must be tempered with suffering to be real; Peabody, a mousy woman who feels guilty about everything, and a host of other folks who come complete with assorted quirks and closely guarded pasts.

Just like in her children's books, Jansson's style is witty and uncluttered. She doles out enough snippets of the characters' earlier lives to maintain the reader's interest and never indulges in "we have to change the system" bombast.

An excellent contrast to her earlier work, "The Summer Book".