Bridget Jones's Diary

Fielding, Helen

ISBN 10: 0670880728 / ISBN 13: 9780670880720

Published by Viking, New York, 1998

About this Item

8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Sharp First Edition, First Printing; square, tight and clean throughout. Very light wear to spine ends. Equally attractive unclipped dust jacket, ($22.95), protected with an archival-quality mylar cover. An excellent collectable copy of Fielding's first book made into the classic film starring Renee Zellweger.

Seller Inventory # 002695

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bridget Jones's Diary
• Publisher: Viking, New York
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670880728
• ISBN 13: 9780670880720
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Books Into Film/TV
  • Modern Literature

About this title

Synopsis

"130 lbs. (how is it possible to put on 4 pounds overnight? Could flesh have somehow solidified becoming denser and heavier (repulsive, horrifying notion)); alcohol units 2 (excellent) cigarettes 21 (poor but will give up totally tomorrow); number of correct lottery numbers 2 (better, but nevertheless useless)?"

This laugh-out-loud chronicle charts a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single girl on a permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement--in which she resolves to: 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, adulterers, workaholics, chauvinists or perverts. And learn to program the VCR.

Caught between her Singleton friends, who are all convinced they will end up dying alone and found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian, and the Smug Marrieds, whose dinner parties offer ever-new opportunities for humiliation, Bridget struggles to keep her life on an even keel (or at least afloat). Through it all, she will have her readers helpless with laughter and shouting, "BRIDGET JONES IS ME!"

About the Author

Helen Fielding, a journalist and a novelist, is the author of three previous novels, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, and Cause Celeb. She also co-wrote the screenplays for the movie of Bridget Jones’s Diary and the forthcoming sequel based on Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.