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The Dud Avocado (VMC Designer Collection) Book

Used hard back book superb condition unread copy cover designer is by the famous textile designer Lucienne Day titled allegro fantastic story set in the 50's portrait of a woman hellbent on living . Nice book to read ideal for a gift #49Read More

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  • Foyles

    '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 STANDARDThe 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?

  • Play

    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?

  • Blackwell

    * Hugely entertaining novel of sex, lies and Americans in Paris * Dripping with the sarcasm those Americans are not supposed to have THE DUD AVOCADO gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman...

  • BookDepository

    The Dud Avocado : Hardback : Little, Brown Book Group : 9781844087600 : 1844087603 : 09 Aug 2011 : * Hugely entertaining novel of sex, lies and Americans in Paris * Dripping with the sarcasm those Americans are not supposed to have

  • Pickabook

    Elaine Dundy, Rachel Cooke

  • 1844087603
  • 9781844087600
  • Elaine Dundy
  • 4 August 2011
  • Virago
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 336
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