I want to write for Vanity Fair
3 parts Complete How people and, especially young girls like Emma, can survive in a time of economic crisis without discourage themselves and without giving up daily little things which turn the ordinary into the extraordinary? In this novel, Emma Travet describe these feelings and those days. Travet is a typical surname from Piedmont, an Italian north-west region where she is from.
Emma has nothing in common with Emma Thompson and that's why.
She is twenty-six years old and she lives in Italy, in a small town where one of the first European gay pub was opened. Emma is a freelance journalist and she is exploited by her boss, Mr Vintage (so called not because he is cool, but because his old unfashionable clothes stinks of mothballs, just like his thoughts...).
Waking up and working every day (Saturdays included) in a narrow local editorial surrounded by closed-minded persons is not the best, Emma thinks it will be much better to write for the magazine Vanity Fair! Thus, she sends out with persistence her curriculum vitae to the editorial office every week, before or later somebody will reply her!
In the meantime, she keeps writing for "La voce del Monviso" (the local weekly magazine), for "New Mag" and, sometimes, she acts copywriter, rig-or-ous-ly under the table! Also, with the complicity of her good stylist friend Wolfango, she amuses herself shooting her grandmother Olga Dionigia in contemporary artistic-glamorous snapshots that she will, then, sell to an English fouled fashion magazine.
EMMA IS A BIG DREAMER! Her everyday life is characterized by a healthy quantity of self-irony and inventiveness that shares among her new hubby, family, old friends, colleagues and her ultra-flexible job. Set in our present time of economic crisis, Emma is also careful to the daily expenses and, meantime she churns out articles about local exhibitions interviewing obscure unknown people, she keeps dreaming of writing for Vanity Fair! Will she be able to cross the chief's office borders?