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In the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and "Fat units 3457 (approx.) (hideous in every way)." In 365 days, she gains 74 pounds. On the other hand, she loses 72! There is also the unspoken New Year's resolution--the quest for the right man. Alas, here Bridget goes severely off course when she has an affair with her charming cad of a boss. But who would be without their e-mail flirtation focused on a short black skirt? The boss even contends that it is so short as to be nonexistent.

At the beginning of Helen Fielding's exceptionally funny second novel, the thirtyish publishing puffette is suffering from postholiday stress syndrome but determined to find Inner Peace and poise. Bridget will, for instance, "get up straight away when wake up in mornings." Now if only she can survive the party her mother has tricked her into--a suburban fest full of "Smug Marrieds" professing concern for her and her fellow "Singletons"--she'll have made a good start. As far as she's concerned, "We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, 'How's your marriage going? Still having sex?'"

This is only the first of many disgraces Bridget will suffer in her year of performance anxiety (at work and at play, though less often in bed) and living through other people's "emotional fuckwittage." Her twin-set-wearing suburban mother, for instance, suddenly becomes a chat-show hostess and unrepentant adulteress, while our heroine herself spends half the time overdosing on Chardonnay and feeling like "a tragic freak." Bridget Jones's Diary began as a column in the London Independent and struck a chord with readers of all sexes and sizes. In strokes simultaneously broad and subtle, Helen Fielding reveals the lighter side of despair, self-doubt, and obsession, and also satirizes everything from self-help books (they don't sound half as sensible to Bridget when she's sober) to feng shui, Cosmopolitan-style. She is the Nancy Mitford of the 1990s, and it's impossible not to root for her endearing heroine. On the other hand, one can only hope that Bridget will continue to screw up and tell us all about it for years and books to come. --Kerry Fried

From Publishers Weekly

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. But, since Bridget reads Susan Faludi and thinks of Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon as role models, it just might. In any case, it's hard to imagine a funnier book appearing anywhere this year. Major ad/promo; first serial to Vogue; BOMC and QPB main selections; simultaneous Random House audio; author tour. (July) FYI: A movie is in the works from Working Title, the team that produced Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait r�f�rence � une �dition �puis�e ou non disponible de ce titre.

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Don't Keep Out 26 juillet 2001

Par Hazac Elodie - Guyancourt

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Bridget Jones's Diary, by Helen Fielding, is so funny that many of its flaws are overshadowed by its hilarity. The plot, for example, simply chronicles a year in the ordinary life of Bridget, a thirty-year-old single female set for self-improvement. However, by amusingly presenting Bridget's obsession with matters such as weight and alcohol consumption, Fielding brings the story to life, making the most ordinary story extraordinary. The plot, simple as it may be, also works to endear readers to Bridget and her diary. Her struggle to fight, yet failure to overcome a nicotine addiction and other humanistic desires allows the reader to relate to Bridget and all her imperfections. The fact that Bridget tackles realistic problems to begin with takes the reader one step further and allows the reader to actually be Bridget. Best of all, Fielding delivers this mastery in an easy to read, easy to follow, neatly arranged package. Chapters go by months, days start with cigarette, calorie, and lottery ticket counts, and relatively short dialogue appears randomly scattered throughout. Being a quick, easy novel relating to female nature and relative to the female mind, Bridget Jones's Diary is the perfect read for any woman in need of nothing more than a good laugh.

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Très sympa 17 d�cembre 2002

Par "madrilenio"

C'est léger et vraiment marrant. Je dois vous avouer que la lecture en anglais n'est pas si simple, car Helen Fielding utilise le vocabulaire familier de tous les jours et pas mal d'expressions typiquement anglaises. Néanmoins, cela ne nous emp�che pas de comprendre l'histoire... et le dico est là pour nous aider !!! Bref, une très bonne lecture qui nous donne envie d'encha�ner sur "The Edge of Reason".

Bridget Jones :les confidences d'une amie 3 juillet 2002

Par "tifillestdenis"

Qu'ont en commun la ville de Londres, un meilleur ami gay, deux meilleures amies féministes, un avocat et une amie "mariée fière de l'etre"? Ils ont bridget!cette londonienne qui en voulant tout simplement etre heureuse vit des aventures rocanbolesques, et nous les fait partager! A la lecture de son journal nous avons l'impression d'etre le confident privilégié de Bridget!Nous vivons le temps de notre lecture au m�me rythme qu'elle, nous partageons ses joies ses peines...Un vrai moment de bonheur que la lecture de ce livre!Une fois refermé nous n'avons qu'une envie: nous replonger dans les aventures de Miss BridgetJones...