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Item Details
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THE DUD AVOCADO
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| By: |
Elaine Dundy, Rachel Cooke |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1844087603 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781844087600 |
| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
1 August, 2011 |
| Series: |
Virago Modern Classics |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
* Hugely entertaining novel of sex, lies and Americans in Paris* Dripping with the sarcasm those Americans are not supposed to have |
| Synopsis: |
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? |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Virago Press Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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