The Dud Avocado
$36.05
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
7 May 2018
Summary
Sally Jay Gorce’s Parisian Whirlwind: A Timeless Portrait of a Woman Living Fast
‘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 timeles…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349010373 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349010374 |
| Series: | VMC |
| Author: | Elaine Dundy, Rachel Cooke |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 7 May 2018 |
| Weight: | 276g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 132mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
SUNDAY TIMES ** ‘Both funny and true
A champagne cocktail … Rich, invigorating, and deceptively simple to the taste … One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from the first sentence - Observer
As delightful and delicate an examination of how it is to be twenty and in love and in Paris as I’ve ever read - Sunday TimesI had to tell someone how much I enjoyed The Dud Avocado. It made me laugh, scream, and guffaw (which, incidentally, is a great name for a law firm).About The Author
Elaine Dundy
Elaine Dundy (1921-2008) grew up in New York City and Long Island. After graduating from Sweet Briar College in 1943, she worked as an actress in Paris and, later, London, where she met her future husband, the theater critic Kenneth Tynan.
Dundy wrote three novels, The Dud Avocado (1958), The Old Man and Me (1964), and The Injured Party (1974); a play, My Place (produced in 1962); biographies of Elvis Presley and the actor Peter Finch; a study of Ferriday, Louisiana; and a memoir, Life Itself!
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