Posy Simmonds is a mainstay comic book creator in England most famous for her strip The Webers printed in The Guardian. She is now attempting to break into the American book market with her wonderful book Gemma Bovery.
Gemma Bovery uses Flaubert's Madame Bovary as a jumping off point and is about Gemma who is the pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children, and the bane of his ex-wife. A sudden windfall and Gemma's distaste for London take them across the Channel...
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Missy
SUICIDEGIRL
California, USA
APR 12, 2005 06:00 AM