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Tamara Drewe
Posy Simmonds
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Description for Tamara Drewe
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 136 pages, chiefly Illustrations. BIC Classification: FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 225 x 16. Weight in Grams: 642.
Winner of the Grand Prix 2009 de la Critique Bande Dessinée.
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224078177
SKU
V9780224078177
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Posy Simmonds
Posy Simmonds is the author of many books for adults and children, including Gemma Bovery, Lulu and the Flying Babies and Fred, the film of which was nominated for an Oscar. She has won international awards for her work, including the 2009 Grand prix de la critique bande dessinée for Tamara Drewe and the 2024 Grand Prix at France’s Angoulême ... Read more
Reviews for Tamara Drewe
Posy Simmonds is the laureate of English middle-class muddle, a peerless observer of their romantic confusions, emotional insecurities and professional vicissitudes. She gets to the heart of them more incisively and wittily than any number of her contemporaries... Tamara Drewe offers not only the psychological intricacy of good fiction but also the pictorial subtlety of art
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