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ADRIAN MOLE: THE CAPPUCCINO YEARS

Book ID/图书代码: 12844099B6937

English Summary/英文概要: Now 301/4, Adrian’s still worrying: Can he be a good father? Is Viagra cheating? Why won’t the BBC produce ’The White Van’, his serial killer comedy?

Will he find the fulfilment he seeks as celebrity offal chef, single parent and celibate novelist? Is there a place for Adrian Mole in Blair’s Brave New Britain?

It is 1 May 1997. Now a celebrity chef at Hoi Polloi restaurant, Soho (and still an unpublished novelist), Mole has returned to the Midlands to cast his vote for the ravishing and Chanel-suited Labour Party candidate, Dr Pandora Braithwaite, the love of his young life.

Back in Leicester, everyone in the Mole household expects Tony Blair’s election to bring them wealth, fulfilment and personal happiness. For 17 Wisteria Walk is a seething mass of late twentieth-century angst:

Pauline Mole. Mother, 53, feels she has wasted her life; no letters after her name and only a ’Mrs’ in front of it. Would an extramarital affair with Ivan Braithwaite (55, ripe for the cull) lift her millennial gloom?

George Mole. Father, 50, out of a job, plagued by piles but scared of the operation. Also having a problem with his erectile function. Is finding it difficult to get out of bed to vote.

Rosie Mole. Sister. 15-year-old vamp. adrian suspects she may have Tourette’s syndrome.

Glenn Bott. Juvenile Stalker, 12. Adrian’s love child? Or is Barry Kent his dad?

New Dog. Age unknown. Disappointing substitute for the Old Dog, who died after a long and record-breaking veterinary experience.

Chinese Summary/中文概要: 二十一世紀 已經而立之年的阿莫依舊在擔憂:能成為一個好父親嗎?VIAGRA是否在撒謊?BBC為什麼不播放他的喜劇《白色貨車》呢?

作為一個廚師,單身家長同時又是一個小說家,阿莫能找到他所追尋的成就感嗎和一個安身之所嗎?(Claire)

Awards/获奖情况:"Hilarious . . . Adrian is a comic Job. Townsend skewers end-of-the-millennium Britain with acumen and glee."---Booklist

"Long before Bridget Jones obsessed about weight, single life and alcohol units, Adrian Mole reigned as Britain’s Diarist of Record . . ."---The Miami Herald

"Thank God for Sue Townsend and Adrian Mole, who has grown up from a spotty . . . childhood to join us . . ."---John Mortimer, The Observer

"When it comes to finding humor in the woes of the perpetual underdog, Sue Townsend is offally good."---Newsday

About the Author/作者介绍: Sue Townsend is the creator of Britain’s best loved and bestselling diarist, Adrian Mole. She was born in Leicester in 1946, is married and has four children and five grandchildren and still lives in Leicester. She left school at fifteen and was employed in series of unskilled jobs. By her 18th birthday she was married, and a year later had her first baby. She began working with children in an adventure playground on the estate where playwright Joe Orton grew up. While taking a canoeing course for playleaders, she met Colin Broadway and they now have a 21-year-old daughter. In 1978 she joined a Writers Group at the Phoenix Art Centre in Leicester and her career as an author and playwright took off from there. Her first play, Womberang, won its author a Thames Television Bursary as Writer in Residence.
Susan Townsend全名Susan Lillian Townsend, 出生於1946年4月2日,英國小說家,劇作家,最負盛名的小說是《阿莫》系列作品。早期作品大都是與社會評論有關的喜劇,但還是有一些純粹的戲劇作品。Susan Townsend著有英國最受歡迎、最暢銷的阿莫系列小說。于1946年出生於萊斯特,並且一直居住在那裡。婚後生有四子。1978年Susan Townsend加入了萊斯特鳳凰藝術中心作家協會,寫作生涯從此開始。作為一名住校作家,她的第一步作品就為她贏得了泰晤士電視臺助學金。

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