Bridget jones's diary

R$ 124,90

Sinopse

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.

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Autor: Helen Fielding

Autor

HELEN FIELDING

Helen Fielding nasceu em Yorkshire, Inglaterra, em 1958. Formada em jornalismo, trabalhou para a rede de televisão BBC. Responsável por um dos maiores fenômenos literários da década de 1990 — O diário de Bridget Jones —, Helen Fielding deu origem a um novo gênero de literatura, os romances bem-humorados para mulheres modernas. A protagonista do livro ganhou as telas de cinema em 2001, no filme homônimo estrelado por Renée Zellweger.