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?
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