Summer Book at any cost: an "epic

at any cost: an "epic trip--through Prohibition and World War II

It discusses with a wealth of illustration and insight such subjects as the organization of the intellectual worker's time

this is the last great untold rock-and-roll story

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove

written with clarity and grace

Summer Book at any cost: an "epicIn The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer its sunlight and storms into twenty two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six year old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The grandmother is unsentimental and wise, if a little cranky; Sophia is impetuous and volatile, but she tends