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Teen angst has never been such serious business--or this much fun! In his secret diary, British teen Adrian Mole excruciatingly details every morsel of his turbulent adolescence. Mixed in with daily reports about the zit sprouting on his chin are heartrending passages about his parents' chaotic marriage. Adrian sees all, and he has something to say about everything. Delightfully self-centered, Adrian is the sort of teen who could rule a much better world--if only his crazy relatives and classmates would get out of his way. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole is a riot, and--although written more than 15 years ago--there is something deliciously timeless about Adrian's angst.
From AudioFile
Using Adrian's diary as her vehicle, Sue Townsend takes us on an illuminating and entertaining two-pronged journey into the mind of an adolescent boy and into the glamourless world of down-at-heel Britain. Nicholas Barnes' sparing performance as the young diarist is convincing and deferential to the author's acerbic wit and satirical purpose. While he is careful to convey Adrian's clashes of emotion, querulousness and self-absorption, earnestness and unwitting naivetŽ, the narrator never overplays the role. His audience is left to enjoy the subtleties of the bathos, humor and irony that pepper the story. Though too risquŽ to be appropriate for young children, this is a very funny revisitation of a life stage many might wish to strike from memory. B.M.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
Book Description
Adrian Mole's first love, Pandora, has left him; a neighbor, Mr. Lucas, appears to be seducing his mother (and what does that mean for his father?); the BBC refuses to publish his poetry; and his dog swallowed the tree off the Christmas cake. "Why" indeed.
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