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The Dud Avocado
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The Dud Avocado

Elaine Dundy
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The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living.

Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. It’s the 1950s, she’s young, and she’s in Paris. Having dyed her hair pink, she wears evening dresses in the daytime and vows to go native in a way not even the natives can manage. Embarking on an educational programme that includes an affair with a married man (which fizzles out when she realises he’s single and wants to marry her); nights in cabarets and jazz clubs in the company of assorted  citizens of the world ; an entanglement with a charming psychopath; and a bit part in a film financed by a famous matador. 

But an education like this doesn’t come cheap. Will our heroine be forced back to the States to fulfill her destiny as a librarian, or can she keep up her whirlwind Parisian existence?   

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Country
United Kingdom
Date
3 May 2018
Pages
336
ISBN
9780349010373

The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living.

Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. It’s the 1950s, she’s young, and she’s in Paris. Having dyed her hair pink, she wears evening dresses in the daytime and vows to go native in a way not even the natives can manage. Embarking on an educational programme that includes an affair with a married man (which fizzles out when she realises he’s single and wants to marry her); nights in cabarets and jazz clubs in the company of assorted  citizens of the world ; an entanglement with a charming psychopath; and a bit part in a film financed by a famous matador. 

But an education like this doesn’t come cheap. Will our heroine be forced back to the States to fulfill her destiny as a librarian, or can she keep up her whirlwind Parisian existence?   

Read More
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Country
United Kingdom
Date
3 May 2018
Pages
336
ISBN
9780349010373

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