The Dud Avocado

By: Elaine Dundy, Rachel Cooke (Introduction by)

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Paperback | 26 January 1993 | Edition Number 1

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336 Pages

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1.8 x 12.6 x 19.7

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''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?

Industry Reviews

**'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 STANDARD

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