{"product_id":"9781504048811","title":"Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe final chapter in the beloved chronicles of an angsty Brit begun in \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ \u003c\/i\u003eis “a tour de force by a comic genius” (\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAm I turning into one of those middle-aged men who think the country has gone to the dogs and that there has been no decent music since Abba?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Hard to believe! Adrian Mole is pushing forty, a beleaguered bookseller looking back through the wistful eyes of an unrecognized intellectual and, admittedly, pretty much of an Everyman. But he’s also looking forward, despite a few things: His five-year-old daughter is showing alarming Stalinist traits; his son is fighting the Taliban and he’s worried sick; his unfaithful wife is keeping a diary of her own and it’s all rather heartbreaking; frequent urination has made him fear trouble “down there;” and his mother is penning a misery memoir that is one gross slog of a lie (born an aristocrat in a Norfolk potato field, indeed!).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Then one day he receives a phone call out of the blue from the great and only love his life: Pandora Braithwaite. “Do you think of me?” she asks. Only ever since he was 13¾ . . .\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Adrian Mole’s epic and hilarious chronicle of angst over a quarter century has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide, and been adapted for television and staged as a musical—truly “a phenomenon” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e). This final volume is “like rediscovering an old school friend on Facebook” (\u003ci\u003eTime Out\u003c\/i\u003e), and “if [it] isn’t the best book published this year, I’ll eat my bookshelf” (\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136940327152,"sku":"9781504048811","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504048811_p0.jpg?v=1769898286","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504048811","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}