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Bridget Jones's Diary

by Helen Fielding

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Bridget Jones's Diary charts a devastatingly self-aware, hilarious year in the life of a thirty-something Singleton. Here is the daily chronicle of her permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement - a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1 1/2 inches, visit the gym three times a week not merely to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult, and not fall for any of the following: misogynists, megalomaniacs, people with girlfriends or wives, emotional fuckwits, alcoholics, workaholics, chauvinists, or perverts. And learn to program the VCR. Bridget struggles to keep her life on an even keel - or at least afloat. Whenever her plans meet with disaster, as they invariably do, she manages to pick herself up, go out on the town, and tell herself it will be all right in the morning, when life will definitely be different this time. Bridget Jones's Diary will make you like yourself for precisely those things you're most ashamed of.

Synopsis:

The devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of a thirty-something "singleton" on a permanent doomed quest for self-improvement.

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Effie, June 17, 2008 (view all comments by Effie)
The book is just too entertaining--and much more feminist than the movie version, it that's all you've done--seen, not read, that is.
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Shantal_Flores_08, March 5, 2007 (view all comments by Shantal_Flores_08)
i BELiEVE THAT THiS BOOK WAS QUiTE iNTERESTiNG & VERY FUNNY. i ACTUALLY CAME TO LOVE iT. AT FiRST iT WAS A CHORE TO READ ThiS BOOK SiNCE iT WAS ASSiGNED TO ME BUT THEN i LOVED iT AND iT WAS NO LONGER A CHORE. i BELiEVE MANY WOMAN CAN RELATE TO THiS BOOK. i BECAME HOOKED ON THiS BOOK AND COULDNT PUT iT DOWN!
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780140280098
Author:
Fielding, Helen
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
England
Subject:
Single women
Subject:
Humorous
Subject:
Humorous fiction
Subject:
Diary fiction
Copyright:
Series Volume:
105-207
Publication Date:
June 1999
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
798x508x56 44

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