CREEMEDIA
When you’ve spent your adolescent years, as The Dauph has, in places like Berlin, Casablanca and Tijuana, it can be odd relating to a fictional diary of a boy undergoing puberty in a nondescript town in present-day Thatcher-land. Still, this book, brash and British to the core, hooked this world-weary scribbler from its opening entry and didn’t let up until its protagonist, Adrian Mole, had crossed over from a bumbling youth of 13-and3/4 to a still bumbling youth of 16-and-1/6.
CREEMEDIA
DEPARTMENTS
NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
THE ADRIAN MOLE D1AFHES by Sue Townsend (Grove Press)
by Edouard Dauphin
When you’ve spent your adolescent years, as The Dauph has, in places like Berlin, Casablanca and Tijuana, it can be odd relating to a fictional diary of a boy undergoing puberty in a nondescript town in present-day Thatcher-land. Still, this book, brash and British to the core, hooked this world-weary scribbler from its opening entry and didn’t let up until its protagonist, Adrian Mole, had crossed over from a bumbling youth of 13-and3/4 to a still bumbling youth of 16-and-1/6. Adrian’s odyssey is painful, funny and uncomfortably familiar to all of us who have gone through our teenage years glad to be alive and wishing we were dead—-often simultaneously.