{"product_id":"the-adrian-mole-diaries-isbn-9780062004697","title":"The Adrian Mole Diaries","description":"“The trouble with trying to read passages from the Adrian Mole Diaries aloud is that you find yourself laughing so hard you can’t go on. It’s that kind of book.” —\u003cem\u003eKansas City Star \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As sad and devastating as it is laugh-out-loud funny. A delight!” —\u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eThe agonizingly funny, captivatingly poignant journals of England’s bespotted everyboy are now available again. An international phenomenon and perennial favorite since their initial publication made a splash in Thatcher’s Britain more than twenty years ago, \u003cem\u003eThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Age 13 ¾ \u003c\/em\u003eis now side-by-side with its hilarious sequel \u003cem\u003eThe Growing Pains of Adrian Mole \u003c\/em\u003ein this collected single volume. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e | \u003cp\u003eAdrian Mole faces the same agoniesthat life sets before most adolescents:trouble s with girls, school, parents,and an uncaring world. The difference,though, between young Master Mole andhis peers is that this British lad keeps adiary—an earnest chronicle of longingand disaster that has charmed morethan five million readers since its two-volumeinitial publication. From teenagedAdrian’s anguished adoration of a lovely,mercurial schoolmate to hisview of his parents’ constantly creaking  relationship to hisheartfelt but hilarious attemptsat cathartic verse, here is anoutrageous triumph of deadpan—anddeadly accurate—satire. ABBA, PrincessDi’s wedding, street punks, Monty Python,the Falklands campaign . . . all the culturalpageantry of a keenly observed eramarches past the unique perspective ofSue Townsend’s brilliant comic creation:A . Mole, the unforgettable lad whoseself-absorption only gets funnier as hislife becomes more desperate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887987880165,"sku":"NP9780062004697","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062004697.jpg?v=1730227891","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-adrian-mole-diaries-isbn-9780062004697","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}