The Adrian Mole Diaries: A Classic and Funny YA Novel of Teenage Life and Heartbreak - Couverture souple

Townsend, Sue

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0062004697 ISBN 13 : 9780062004697

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2010

Synopsis

“The trouble with trying to read passages from the Adrian Mole Diaries aloud is that you find yourself laughing so hard you can’t go on. It’s that kind of book.” —Kansas City Star

“As sad and devastating as it is laugh-out-loud funny. A delight!” —New York Times

The agonizingly funny, captivatingly poignant journals of England’s bespotted everyboy are now available again. An international phenomenon and perennial favorite since their initial publication made a splash in Thatcher’s Britain more than twenty years ago, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Age 13 ¾ is now side-by-side with its hilarious sequel The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole in this collected single volume.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Sue Townsend is the author of The Queen and I and The Adrian Mole books. She lives in England.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Adrian Mole faces the same agoniesthat life sets before most adolescents:trouble s with girls, school, parents,and an uncaring world. The difference,though, between young Master Mole andhis peers is that this British lad keeps adiary—an earnest chronicle of longingand disaster that has charmed morethan five million readers since its two-volumeinitial publication. From teenagedAdrian’s anguished adoration of a lovely,mercurial schoolmate to hisview of his parents’ constantly creaking  relationship to hisheartfelt but hilarious attemptsat cathartic verse, here is anoutrageous triumph of deadpan—anddeadly accurate—satire. ABBA, PrincessDi’s wedding, street punks, Monty Python,the Falklands campaign . . . all the culturalpageantry of a keenly observed eramarches past the unique perspective ofSue Townsend’s brilliant comic creation:A . Mole, the unforgettable lad whoseself-absorption only gets funnier as hislife becomes more desperate.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0062004697
• ISBN 13: 9780062004697
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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