by Posy Simmonds · Salamandra Graphic · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788419409874
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A brilliant collection of 'Literary Life' cartoons, by the author of Gemma Bovery. This book consists of approximately fifty 'Literary Life' cartoons which were serialised weekly every Saturday in the Guardian's Review section from November 2002 until December 2004, and two short stories. Posy Simmonds examines the pretensions of the literary world with her customary flair for light, witty satire and social observation. Funny, insightful and beautifully drawn, Literary Life will delight fans of Gemma Bovery, Tamara Drewe and Cassandra Darke.
Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE, FRSL is a British newspaper cartoonist, and writer and illustrator of both children's books and graphic novels. She is best known for her long association with The Guardian, for which she drew the series Gemma Bovery (2000) and Tamara Drewe (2005–06), both later published as books. Her style gently satirises the English middle classes and in particular those of a literary bent. Both Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drew feature a "doomed heroine", much in the style of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century gothic romantic novel, to which they often allude, but with an ironic, modernist slant.
