The Dud Avocado (Hardcover)

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 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?

General

Imprint:	Virago Press Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	VMC Designer Collection
Release date:	August 2011
First published:	August 2011
Authors:	Elaine Dundy
Introduction by:	Rachel Cooke
Dimensions:	204 x 130 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	321
ISBN-13:	978-1-84408-760-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-84408-760-3
Barcode:	9781844087600

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