What: Tamara Drewe is Posy Simmonds's modernized, satirical take on Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd --- she gets her characters into a rural setting via a writer's retreat. Her story started as a weekly comic serial in The Guardian before becoming an award-winning graphic novel.
Opening lines:
"Assholes!"
"Oh come on, Glen, they're just bored ... holidays've gone on too long ... just mindless."
"But that's what I object to! I mean if they threw stuff with a purpose ... like they see us and think: hey, writers! Let's egg the self-regarding sacks of shit."
"Maybe they did."
You might not like it if: Satire! Struggling writers! The British countryside! Adultery! Rock star ex-fiances! Mid-life ennui! Stalkers! Plotting! Sheep! What's not to like?
How to get it: Buy it or borrow it. The paperback edition is a super good deal right now on Amazon.
Connections to previous Wreckage: The graphic novel was made into a movie in 2010. I haven't seen it, but Tamsin Greig is in it, so how bad could it be? We love Tamsin Greig! See Black Books (Rec. #68), Green Wing (Rec. #110), and The Half (Rec. #178) for evidence of why she's great.
[Originally posted 1/22/13.]
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