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Tamara Drewe.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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Simmonds follows her celebrated Flaubert homage "Gemma Bovary" with a similar contemporary remake--this time, of Thomas Hardy's "Far from the Madding Crowd." Affectionately satirizing contemporary literary life, she updates Hardy's vain, ambitious beauty, Bathsheba, as Tamara, a London journalist (she's had a nose job, carries Mulberry bags, and writes a column called "Away from It ...

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