000 01064nam a2200169 4500
020 _a9780141034737
024 _a619076798
050 _aPR6070.O897
082 _a823.914
100 1 _aS. Townsend
245 1 _aAdrian Mole: The Prostrate Years
260 _bPenguin Books
300 _a432 pages
520 _aAdrian Mole is thirty-nine and a quarter. He lives in a semi-detched converted pigsty with his wife Daisy and their daughter. His parents George and Pauline live in the adjoining pigsty. But all is not well. The secondhand bookshop in which Adrian works is threatened with closure. the spark has fizzled out of his marriage. His mother is threatening to write her autobiography (A Girl Called Shit). And Adrian's nightly trips to the lavatory have become alarmingly frequent. As his troubles multiply, a drunken call to old flame Dr. Pandora Braithwaite (BA,MA,PhD, MP and Junior Minister) awakens memories of what might have been and causes Adrian to wonder: is Pandora the only one who can possibly save him"
650 _aHumor
999 _c14449
_d14449