Bridget Jones : the edge of reason

Format:

Book

Title:

Bridget Jones : the edge of reason

Other title(s):

Edge of reason

Author:

Fielding, Helen, 1958-

ISBN:

9780140298475

9780670892969

Publication Information:

New York : Penguin, 2001.

Physical Description:

338 pages ; 21 cm

General Note:

"(2004) - Beeban Kidrin w. Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, James Faulkner, Celia Imrie, Rosalind Halstead" -from Collector's description.

Contents:

Happily ever after -- Jellyfish at large -- Doooom! -- Persuasion -- Mr. Darcy, Mr. Darcy -- Italian job -- Mood-swinging Singletons -- Oh baby -- Social hell -- Mars and Venus in the dustbin -- Thai takeaway -- Strange times -- Gaaah! -- For better or worse? -- Excess Christmas spirit.

Summary:

"Lurching from the cappuccino bars of Notting Hill to the blissed-out shores of Thailand, Bridget Jones searches for The Truth in spite of pathetically unevolved men, insane dating theories, and Smug Married advice ..." From the bookjacket.

Personal Subject:

Jones, Bridget (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Jones, Bridget (Fictitious character)

Subject(s):

Single women -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Genre:

Added Author:

Added Corporate Author:

Gerald Peary Collection (College of Staten Island Library)

Holds:

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Library	Call Number	Status
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Searching... Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Library	FIC FIE	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

With another devastatingly hilarious, ridiculous, unnervingly accurate take on modern womanhood, Bridget Jones is back. (v.g.)

Monday 27 January

"7:15 a.m. Hurrah! The wilderness years are over. For four weeks and five days now have been in functional relationship with adult male, thereby proving am not love pariah as recently feared."

Wednesday 5 March

"7:08 p.m. Am assured, receptive, responsive woman of substance. My sense of self comes not from other people but . . .from . . .myself? That can't be right."

Lurching from the cappuccino bars of Notting Hill to the blissed-out shores of Thailand, everyone's favorite Singleton Bridget Jones begins her search for The Truth in spite of pathetically unevolved men, insane dating theories, and Smug Married advice. She experiences a zeitgeist-esque Spiritual Epiphany somewhere between the pages of How to Find the Love You Want Without Seeking It (can self-help books really help self?), protective custody, and a lightly chilled Chardonnay.

Author Notes

Helen Fielding was born in Morley, West Yorkshire, England on February 19, 1958. She studied English at Oxford University.

After college, she got a job working for the BBC television studios. She worked for numerous years as a newspaper and TV journalist. Her first book, Cause Celeb, was based on the experiences she had while filming documentaries in Africa for Comic Relief. Her other books include Bridget Jones's Diary, The Edge of Reason, Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination, Mad about the Boy, and Bridget Jones's Baby. She co-wrote the screenplays for the movies Bridget Jones's Diary and the sequel based on The Edge of Reason.

She has received several awards including British Book of the Year in 1997 and the Evening Standard Award Best Screenplay in 2002. She works as a full-time novelist and screenwriter.

(Bowker Author Biography)