Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction - Couverture rigide

Townsend, Sue

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1569474060 ISBN 13 : 9781569474068

Editeur : Soho Press, 2005

Synopsis

“Townsend’s wickedly funny novels are another reason to be grateful for the right of free speech.”—San Francisco Chronicle
 
“Townsend is [a] comic genius.”—The Village Voice (a Top Shelf selection)
 
“The latest careening satire to emerge from Sue Townsend’s wickedly literary rocket launcher, combining love, politics and credit-card debacle into a not-to-be-missed novel.”—The Seattle Times
 
“Complex, funny and wrenching.”—Publishers Weekly
 
Adrian Mole, now age thirty-four and three quarters, needs proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction so he can get a refund from a travel agency of the deposit he paid on a trip to Cyprus. Naturally, he writes to Tony Blair for some evidence.
 
He’s engaged to Marigold, but obsessed with her voluptuous sister. And he is so deeply in debt to banks and credit card companies that it would take more than twice his monthly salary to ever repay them. He needs a guest speaker for his creative writing group’s dinner in Leicestershire and wonders if the prime minister’s wife is available.
 
In short, Adrian is back in true form, unable—like so many people we know, but of course, not us—to admit that the world does not revolve around him. But recognizing the universal core of Adrian’s dilemmas is what makes them so agonizingly funny.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Adrian Mole’s pen is scribbling for the twenty-first century. Working as a bookseller and living in Leicester’s Rat Wharf; finding time to write letters of advice to Tim Henman and Tony Blair; locked in mortal combat with a vicious swan called Gielgud; measuring his expanding bald spot; and trying to escape the clutches of Marigold and win over her voluptuous sister Daisy... Adrian still yearns for a better, more meaningful world. And he’s not ready to surrender his pen yet...

Revue de presse

As funny as anything Townsend has written, in which the loft-dwelling Mole wrestles with credit-card debt, WMD and where to find a dentist (Sunday Times)

The funniest book of the year. I can think of no more comical read (Jeremy Paxman Sunday Telegraph)

He will be remembered some day as one of England's great diarists (Evening Standard)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Soho Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1569474060
• ISBN 13: 9781569474068
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 332
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible