Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (平装) 0140279407

在线阅读本书 End of Century Mole. An accidental celebrity, with a spreading bald patch, despairing of current family values, Mole is still worrying: Is Viagra cheating? Why won't BBC1 produce The White Van, his serial killer comedy? Will the Millennium Wheel EVER turn? Will Pandora Braithwaite MP become Blair's favourite babe? Will Pauline Mole throw caution to the winds with a pre-millennuim fling? Will George Mole regain his erectile function? And will Adrian himself find the fulfilment he seeks as celebrity offal chef, single parent, and celibate novelist? .co.uk Review Adrian Mole is balding, he's bitter and he's back, this time aged 30¼. Working at the HoiPolloy restaurant, Soho, where a typical menu includes:

Heinz Tomato Soup, (with white bread floaters)

Grey Lamb Chops Boiled Cabbage avec Dan Quayle Potatoes Dark Brown onion gravy

Spotted Dick la Clinton Bird's Eye Custard

Cheddar Cheese, Cream Crackers Nescaf After Eight Mint

he is spotted by a cable TV producer and ends up starring in a celebrity chef show celebrating offal.Though he may be older he is certainly no wiser, still passing his time by dreaming of Pandora (now ashining star in Tony Blair's New Government) after his marriage to a Nigerian beauty ends in tatters. Butunderneath the layers of experience and sophistication, fans of the Mole family will find the samedysfunctional mess that made Adrian's SecretDiary an instant bestseller--his young son is being brought up by his mother in Ashby-de-la- Zouch, his 16-year-old sister leaves home to live with her multiply pierced boyfriend and his father is bed- bound with manic depression.Adrian still makes constant lists of juvenile neuroses and concentrates on hispenis activity to an unhealthy extent (it is when it reaches 0/10 he realises something has to bedone).

Townsend's trademark acerbic wit is still much in evidence;

Zippo kissed my mother's hand and complimented her on the shirt she was wearing. 'Is it VivienneWestwood?' he murmered. 'No', she muttered back. 'It's BhS'. 'You clever thing', he crooned.

it is only the frames of reference that have changed. Occasionally verging on the corny ("I arrived at theBrent Cross shopping centre car-park, to find that my car had been towed away five days ago and was in apolice compound somewhere in Purley. A £25 cab ride took me to the Purley gates …") true Molefanatics will forgive Townsend her occasional excesses for the numerous laugh-out-loud moments thatpunctuate Adrian's existence as he blunders on towards middle age.

Accessible, amusing and appealing, The Cappuccino Years see an Adrian who has survived the Growing Pains; thought better of True Confessions; is out of the Wilderness Years and is facing the only reallyimportant question that remains: Is Viagra cheating? --Lucie Naylor--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review Adrian Mole, diarist and chronicler of the changing social scene in the latter half of the 20th century is back and now he's aged 30 1/4. Townsend's endearing character, first encountered during his acne-ridden teenage years, is now working as a chef in a Soho restaurant which specializes in offal. He's still besotted by Pandora, who has moved into politics still refusing to return his love, and his family is in chaos as he tries to cope with Blair's Britain, obsessed with spin, media manipulation and Viagra. A hilarious cast of characters reflects on how life in Britain, together with the political attitudes and social fabric of the country, has changed during the Mole years. (Kirkus UK)

Sue Townsend was Britain's bestselling author of the 1980s with THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE AGED 13 3/4 and THE GROWING PAINS OF ADRIAN MOLE. She lives in Leicester.

出版社	Penguin Books Ltd
作者	Sue Townsend