(DUD AVOCADO) BY DUNDY, ELAINE[ AUTHOR ]Paperback 08-1993

'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?

Title - (DUD AVOCADO) BY DUNDY, ELAINE[ AUTHOR ]Paperback 08-1993

Edition -

Author - Elaine Dundy

ISBN 13 - 9781853815812

Imprint - Virago Press Ltd

Publisher - Little, Brown Book Group

Date Published - 26/08/1993

Prize -

No. of pages -

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 201 x 132 x 22mm

Weight - 260 g

Languages - English