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Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction

By Sue Townsend

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| Hardcover | 9781569474068

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Book Description

Praise for Sue Townsend:

"It's a good thing British subjects are no longer beheaded for treason, or Sue Townsend's head would roll for her outrageously cutting depictions of the powers that be."-Newsday

"[Townsend] is a national treasure."-The New York Times Book ReviewContinue

Praise for Sue Townsend:

"It's a good thing British subjects are no longer beheaded for treason, or Sue Townsend's head would roll for her outrageously cutting depictions of the powers that be."-Newsday

"[Townsend] is a national treasure."-The New York Times Book Review

"Breezy, hilarious."-New York Magazine

"A sharp, entertaining social critique."-The Plain Dealer

"Townsend has a rare gift . . . wickedly funny."-Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"Both funny and impudent."-TIME

"Engaging."-The Washington Post Book World

"Hilarious."-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"Irresistible, irreverent, revealing, and impossible to put down."-The Boston Globe

"Brilliant, funny."-The Seattle Times

Adrian Mole, now age 34 and three-quarters, needs proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction so he can get a refund from the travel agency of the deposit he paid on a trip to Cyprus. Naturally, he writes to Tony Blair for some evidence.

He's engaged to Marigold but obsessed with her voluptuous sister, yet he doesn't want anyone to think ill of him. And he is so deeply in debt to banks and credit card companies that it would take more than twice his monthly salary to ever repay them. He needs a guest speaker for his creative writing group's dinner in Leicestershire and wonders if the prime minister's wife is available.

In short, Adrian is back in true form, unable-like so many people we know, but of course, not us-to admit that the world does not revolve around him. But recognizing the universal core in Adrian's dilemmas is what makes them so agonizingly funny.

Critics

  • Funny sad and funny ha-ha

    Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend 352pp, Michael Joseph, £16.99 An Adrian Mole book is bound to be funny, and this is no exception. Not in a laugh-out-loud-on-the-aeroplane way (though there was one moment when I did jus ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Mole in a loft? It's a mid-life crisis

    Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend Viking £16.99, pp460 For the past 20 years, Adrian Mole and his supporting cast of family, friends and lovers have managed to inhabit every social issue and lifestyle trend experienced i ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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    Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction

    Without exception I have enjoyed every book written by Sue Townsend and I think I have read them all.
    Adrian Mole returns in this title and he is now 34 but his life is just as complicated and caotic as ever! If you enjoy a good laugh you will enjoy this.

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    Lindyloumac said on Aug 31, 2009 | Add your feedback

  • the best insight on the blairite years. i read it in 3 hours on a plane. lovely adrian, so naif.

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    Elsastella said on Feb 23, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Honestly I like the young Adrian much better. It's just that seeing a grown-up having his life messed up as before, you'd wonder dully why this man just never learnt anything in all those years passed. Though on average 'tis still a good read.

    Check out more in the book reviews' site: http://w ... (continue)

    Honestly I like the young Adrian much better. It's just that seeing a grown-up having his life messed up as before, you'd wonder dully why this man just never learnt anything in all those years passed. Though on average 'tis still a good read.

    Check out more in the book reviews' site: http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/adrian_mole_and_the_weapo…

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    Yayoi said on Dec 18, 2006 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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