The Dud Avocado

Zusatztext SUNDAY TIMES ** 'Both funny and true Informationen zum Autor Elaine Dundy (1921-2008) grew up in New York City and Long Island. After graduating from Sweet Briar College in 1943, she worked as an actress in Paris and, later, London, where she met her future husband, the theater critic Kenneth Tynan. Dundy wrote three novels, The Dud Avocado (1958), The Old Man and Me (1964), and The Injured Party (1974); a play, My Place (produced in 1962); biographies of Elvis Presley and the actor Peter Finch; a study of Ferriday, Louisiana; and a memoir, Life Itself! Vorwort Charming, sexy, and hilarious, The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status when it was first published and it remains a timeless portrait of a woman hell-bent on living. Zusammenfassung '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? ...

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Cooke, Elaine Dundy, Dundy Elaine
• Assisted by: Rachel Cooke (Introduction), Rachel Goodson (Introduction)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2011
• EAN: 9781844087600
• ISBN: 978-1-84408-760-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 205 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Virago Press; Virago Modern Classics; VMC Designer Collection; VMC; Virago modern classics; VMC Designer Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Adventure, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Romance / General, Historical romance, FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Narrative theme: Coming of age, Classic fiction, Adventure fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary