Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years
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The final chapter in the beloved chronicles of an angsty Brit begun in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 133⁄4 is "a tour de force by a comic genius" ( Daily Mail).
Am I turning into one of those middle-aged men who think the country has gone to the dogs and that there has been no decent music since Abba?
Hard to believe! Adrian Mole is pushing forty, a beleaguered bookseller looking back through the wistful eyes of an unrecognized intellectual and, admittedly, pretty much of an Everyman. But he's also looking forward, despite a few things: His five-year-old daughter is showing alarming Stalinist traits; his son is fighting the Taliban and he's worried sick; his unfaithful wife is keeping a diary of her own and it's all rather heartbreaking; frequent urination has made him fear trouble "down there;" and his mother is penning a misery memoir that is one gross slog of a lie (born an aristocrat in a Norfolk potato field, indeed!).
Then one day he receives a phone call out of the blue from the great and only love his life: Pandora Braithwaite. "Do you think of me?" she asks. Only ever since he was 133⁄4 . . .
Adrian Mole's epic and hilarious chronicle of angst over a quarter century has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide, and been adapted for television and staged as a musical—truly "a phenomenon" ( The Washington Post). This final volume is "like rediscovering an old school friend on Facebook" ( Time Out), and "if [it] isn't the best book published this year, I'll eat my bookshelf" ( Daily Mail).
Am I turning into one of those middle-aged men who think the country has gone to the dogs and that there has been no decent music since Abba?
Hard to believe! Adrian Mole is pushing forty, a beleaguered bookseller looking back through the wistful eyes of an unrecognized intellectual and, admittedly, pretty much of an Everyman. But he's also looking forward, despite a few things: His five-year-old daughter is showing alarming Stalinist traits; his son is fighting the Taliban and he's worried sick; his unfaithful wife is keeping a diary of her own and it's all rather heartbreaking; frequent urination has made him fear trouble "down there;" and his mother is penning a misery memoir that is one gross slog of a lie (born an aristocrat in a Norfolk potato field, indeed!).
Then one day he receives a phone call out of the blue from the great and only love his life: Pandora Braithwaite. "Do you think of me?" she asks. Only ever since he was 133⁄4 . . .
Adrian Mole's epic and hilarious chronicle of angst over a quarter century has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide, and been adapted for television and staged as a musical—truly "a phenomenon" ( The Washington Post). This final volume is "like rediscovering an old school friend on Facebook" ( Time Out), and "if [it] isn't the best book published this year, I'll eat my bookshelf" ( Daily Mail).
The final chapter in the beloved chronicles of an angsty Brit begun in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 133⁄4 is "a tour de force by a comic genius" ( Daily Mail).
Am I turning into one of those middle-aged men who think the country has gone to the dogs and that there has been no decent mus...
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Sue Townsend was born in Leicester, England, in 1946. Despite not learning to read until the age of eight, leaving school at fifteen with no qualifications, and having three children by the time she was in her mid-twenties, she managed to be very well read. Townsend wrote secretly for twenty years, and after joining a writers' group at the Phoenix Theatre, Leicester, she won a Thames Television Award for her first play, Womberang, and became a professional playwright and novelist. Following the publication of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 133⁄4, she continued to make the nation laugh and prick its conscience with seven more volumes of Adrian's diaries, five popular novels—including The Queen and I, Number Ten, and The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year—and numerous well-received plays. Townsend passed away in 2014 at the age of sixty-eight, and remains widely regarded as Britain's favorite comic writer.
Sue Townsend was born in Leicester, England, in 1946. Despite not learning to read until the age of eight, leaving school at fifteen with no qualifications, and having three children by the time she was in her mid-twenties, she managed to be very well read. Townsend wrote secretly for twenty year...
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