Tamara Drewe - Hardcover

Simmonds, Posy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 022407816X ISBN 13: 9780224078160

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2007

Synopsis

Tamara Drewe has transformed herself. Plastic surgery, a different wardrobe, a smouldering look, have given her confidence and a new and thrilling power to attract, which she uses recklessly. Often just for the fun of it.

People are drawn to Tamara Drewe, male and female. In the remote village where her late mother lived Tamara arrives to clear up the house. Here she becomes an object of lust, of envy, the focus of unrequited love, a seductress. To the village teenagers she is 'plastic-fantastic', a role model. Ultimately, when her hot and indiscriminate glances lead to tragedy, she is seen as a man-eater, a heartless marriage wrecker, a slut.

First appearing as a serial in the Guardian, in book form Tamara Drewe has been enlarged, embellished and lovingly improved by the author.

About this title

Review:

'The cartooning is beautiful...let's hope there aren't 7 years until the next' -- Forbiddenplanet.co.uk

'A very English riposte to the transatlantic autobiographical tendency... a wonderfully precise ironist of provincial life' -- Telegraph

'Posy Simmonds is a true child of Hogarth, her accomplished cartoons a merciless commentary on the way we live now.'
-- Sunday Times

'Simmonds is the laureate of English middle-class muddle. A cartoon Turner.' -- Mail on Sunday

'Simmonds manages to be both sympathetic and merciless... she has a novelistic insight and ear for dialogue' -- Daily Telegraph

'The way Simmonds captures body language, sideways glances and the landscape at different times of the year is breathtaking' -- Roger Sabine, Observer

'wonderfully witty and mercilessly observed [...] Simmonds's sly and entrancing drawings prove that pictures can paint a thousand words.' -- Daily Mail

`Anyone who still thinks comic books aren't for grown-ups should have a look at Tamara Drewe'' -- Evening Standard

`The argument over whether the graphic novel can compete with the literary novel would,...now seem to be over.' -- Nicholas Lezard, Scotsman

`as clever and absorbing as any novel but more entertaining'. -- Sunday Herald `Books of the Year'

Book Description:

A brilliant new graphic novel inspired by Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd, by the author of the widely acclaimed Gemma Bovery

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 022407816X
• ISBN 13: 9780224078160
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136