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Title: Bridget Jones's Diary

Other Available Formats:
Book, 1996
Hardcover, 1998
Audio Cassette, 1998
Hardcover, 1998
Paperback, 1999
Prebinding, 1999
Compact Disc, 2001
Paperback, 2001

Synopsis
BRIDGET JONES, a runaway best seller when it was first released in Britain, is a novel in diary form about a 30-something young woman and her romantic adventures. The plot, which has some intriguing connections to Jane Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE that probably have Austen spinning in her grave, also involves Bridget's tendency to binge on chocolate, the disastrous publishing parties she goes to, her attempts to quit smoking, and the exploits of her daffy mother. One of the first novels in the "chick lit" genre, BRIDGET JONES has spawned many imitators and was also the basis for a popular movie. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.

Details
Series:             THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE PRINT BUCKINGHAMS
Language:        English

Size
Length:        411 Pages
Weight:        1 Pounds
Height:         9 Inches
Width:          5.8 Inches
Thickness:    1 Inches


Publisher Notes
First Line: New Year's Resolutions. I will not drink more than fourteen units of alcohol a week.
Bridget Jones is absolutely sure that life would be perfect if she could lose seven pounds, stop smoking and develop inner poise. Here is the compulsively readable, laugh -- out -- loud chronicle of her doomed quest for self-improvement that will make you like yourself for precisely those things that you're most ashamed of. And through it all, Bridget will have you helpless with laughter and shouting, "Bridget Jones is me!"

Industry Reviews
"[L]ives up to the hype: This year in the life of a single woman is closely observed and laugh-out-loud funny."
(05/15/1998)
A huge success in England, this marvelously funny debut novel had its genesis in a column Fielding writes for a London newspaper. It's the purported diary, complete with daily entries of calories consumed, cigarettes smoked, "alcohol units" imbibed and other unsuitable obsessions, of a year in the life of a bright London 30-something who deplores male "fuckwittage" while pining for a steady boyfriend. As dogged at making resolutions for self-improvement as she is irrepressibly irreverent, Bridget also would like to have someone to show the folks back home and their friends, who make "tick-tock" noises at her to evoke the motion of the biological clock. Bridget is knowing, obviously attractive but never too convinced of the fact, and prone ever to fear the worst. In the case of her mother, who becomes involved with a shady Portuguese real estate operator and is about to be arrested for fraud, she's probably quite right. In the case of her boss, Daniel, who sends sexy e-mail messages but really plans to marry someone else, she's a tad blind. And in the case of glamorous lawyer Mark Darcy, whom her parents want her to marry, she turns out to be way off the mark. ("It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting `Cathy!' and banging your head against a tree.") It's hard to say how the English frame of reference will travel. But, since Bridget reads Susan Faludi and thinks of Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon as role models, it just might. In any case, it's hard to imagine a funnier book appearing anywhere this year. Major ad/promo; first serial to Vogue; BOMC and QPB main selections; simultaneous Random House audio; author tour. (July) FYI: A movie is in the works from Working Title, the team that produced Four Weddings and a Funeral.
(04/20/1998)
In the course of one year, Bridget Jones will consume 11,090,265 calories, smoke 5,277 cigarettes, and write a series of delightfully funny diary entries. This will be no ordinary year in the life of this single, on-the-cusp-of-30 Londoner. She's going to keep at least one New Year's resolution, have dates with two boyfriends, create legendary cooking disasters, and be seen on national TV going up a firehouse pole instead of the planned dramatic slide down. If that isn't enough, her mom is getting a new career as the host of the TV program Suddenly Single and will disappear with a Portuguese gigolo. Supported by friends and confused by family, Bridget emerges, if not triumphant, at least hopeful about life and love. Already a best seller in Britain and winner of the Publishing News Book of the Year Award, this book should be equally popular in the United States. Recommended for all fiction collections. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 3/15/98.] Jan Blodgett, Davidson Coll., NC
(05/15/1998)


Book Details Summary: The title of this book is Bridget Jones's Diary and it was written by Helen Fielding. This edition of Bridget Jones's Diary is in a Paperback format. This books publish date is November 1999 and it has a suggested retail price of $26.95. There are 411 pages in the book and it was published by Thorndike Pr. The 10 digit ISBN is 0786216379 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780786216376. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.