The Dud Avocado
$34.35
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
11 January 1996
Summary
THE DUD AVOCADO gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. It is, as the GUARDIAN observes, ‘one of the best novels about growing up fast’.
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 af…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781853815812 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1853815810 |
| Author: | Elaine Dundy, Rachel Cooke |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 11 January 1996 |
| Weight: | 228g |
| Dimensions: | 132mm x 201mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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** ‘Scandalous and entertaining … 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 ‘A carbonated first novel that will set male readers to thinking sheepishly of plain wrappers - TIME MAGAZINE
** ‘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 TIMES** ‘Scandalous and entertaining … Both funny and true - EVENING STANDARD‘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 ‘A carbonated first novel that will set male readers to thinking sheepishly of plain wrappers - TIME MAGAZINE** ‘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 TIMES** ‘Scandalous and entertaining … Both funny and true - EVENING STANDARDAbout The Author
Elaine Dundy
Elaine Dundy was born and raised in New York. As an actress, she worked in Paris and London, where she met her husband, the late Kenneth Tynan. The Dud Avocado was her semi-autobiographical first novel, based on the year she spent in Paris. She died in April 2008.
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