Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years
by Sue Townsend
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Pub Date Jan 02 2018 | Archive Date Jan 25 2018
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Description
Can an adult still have a secret diary? Everyone’s favorite angsty adolescent Brit is now a tormented twentysomething and still “a brilliant comic creation” (The Times).
Question: What have I done with my life? Answer: Nothing.
At 23¾ years old, Adrian Mole is now an adult and almost prepared. On the upside: He’s fallen for a perfectly lovely Nigerian waitress; he’s seeing a therapist so as to talk about himself without interruption; and he’s added vowels to his experimental novel-in-progress (so much more accessible to the masses!). The downside? Pandora is probably history; a pea-brained rival has been published before him to great acclaim; and worse, Adrian realizes he may not be uncommon after all. In fact, he may fall somewhere within the range of normalcy. How can an intellectual be expected to live with that?
“Thank God for Sue Townsend and Adrian Mole” (The Observer). Her “achingly funny anti-hero” (Daily Mail) returns to take the world by storm—or least weather it—in the beloved bestselling series from “one of Britain’s most celebrated comic writers” (The Guardian). Adrian’s continuing chronicle of angst has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide, and been adapted for television and staged as a musical—truly “a phenomenon” (The Washington Post).
Advance Praise
Praise for the Adrian Mole Novels
“Part Woody Allen, part a kindred spirit to the heroes of Philip Roth’s early novellas, Adrian inspires a rare warmth and affection. . . . As sad and devastating as it is laugh-out-loud funny . . . A delight!” —The New York Times
“Screamingly funny . . . Set to become as much a cult book as The Catcher in the Rye.” —Jilly Cooper on The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
“Adrian Mole is the truth behind the dream we shared when we read The Catcher in the Rye and discovered that we were all Holden Caulfields. A phenomenon!” —The Washington Post
“Highly entertaining. Sharply observed. Succeeds brilliantly!” —The Village Voice
“Townsend’s considerable achievement is to have created a world that is underscored with sadness and disaster and yet hilarious as viewed through the increasingly appalled eyes of Adrian.” —Time Out
“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
“Long before Bridget Jones obsessed about weight, single life and alcohol units, Adrian Mole reigned as Britain’s Diarist of Record.” —The Miami Herald
“Loveable in its celebration of mediocrity, it’s told with Townsend’s trademark deadpan humour. To people of a certain age, Adrian Mole was their Harry Potter.” —News of the World
“[Townsend is] the funniest person in the world.” —Caitlin Moran
“The crisply hilarious saga of Britain’s favorite fictional diarist.” —Booklist on Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
“Adrian Mole is probably the most successful comic literary creation of the past two decades.” —TheObserver
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781504048828 |
| PRICE | $7.99 (USD) |
