The Dud Avocado

Charming, sexy, and hilarious, The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status when it was first published and it remains a timeless portrait of a woman hell-bent on living.

''One of the best novels about growing up fast'' GUARDIAN

''One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from the first sentence'' OBSERVER

''Scandalous and entertaining . . . Both funny and true'' EVENING STANDARD

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?

• | Author: Elaine Dundy
• | Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• | Publication Date: Aug 26, 1993
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781853815812
• | ISBN-10: 1853815810