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The Dud Avocado de Elaine Dundy

The Dud Avocado: Virago Modern Classics

Autor Elaine Dundy Introducere de Rachel Cooke
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 ian 2026
'Funny, funny, funny. She's wicked and wise' GRETA GERWIG
'One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from the first sentence' OBSERVER
'Scandalous and entertaining . . . Both funny and true' EVENING STANDARD
'One of the best novels about growing up fast' GUARDIAN

Here was all the gaiety and glory and sparkle I knew was going to be life if I could just grasp it . . .

Sally Jay Gorce is a girl hellbent on living. It's the 1950s and she's an American in Paris: witty, headstrong and disaster-prone. She dyes her hair pink, wears evening dresses in the daytime and prowls the Left Bank in search of love, adventure and fame. 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?

As effervescent as a champagne cocktail, The Dud Avocado is a deliciously funny cult classic.

INTRODUCED BY RACHEL COOKE
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ISBN-13: 9780349020884
ISBN-10: 0349020884
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Seriile Virago Modern Classics, VMC

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Readers turn to it again and again for its jokes, which are very funny and remain so after a dozen readings
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
As delightful and delicate an examination of how it is to be twenty and in love and in Paris as I've ever read
I had to tell someone how much I enjoyed The Dud Avocado. It made me laugh, scream, and guffaw (which, incidentally, is a great name for a law firm)
For a highly likeable and amusing narrator, who throws herself into Parisian life. A cult classic to reconnect me with France and feed my love of sharp observational humour . . . a hedonistic whirlwind in Paris and the South of France, pulled along by its whip-smart American heroine, Sally Jay Gore (out of the way, Emily In Paris). This is someone I am desperate to drink Pernod with. Where life has felt so constrained, this was such a liberating read
Scandalous and entertaining . . . Both funny and true
A youthquake classic that inspires joie de vivre
**'A champagne cocktail ... Rich, invigorating, and deceptively simple to the taste ... One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height...
SUNDAY TIMES ** 'Both funny and true
INTRODUCED BY RACHEL COOKE

Here was all the gaiety and glory and sparkle I knew was going to be life if I could just grasp it . . .

Sally Jay Gorce is a girl hellbent on living. It's the 1950s and she's an American in Paris: witty, headstrong and disaster-prone. She dyes her hair pink, wears evening dresses in the daytime and prowls the Left Bank in search of love, adventure and fame. 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?

As effervescent as a champagne cocktail, The Dud Avocado is a deliciously funny cult classic.

'Funny, funny, funny. She's wicked and wise' GRETA GERWIG
'One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from the first sentence' OBSERVER
'Scandalous and entertaining . . . Both funny and true' EVENING STANDARD
'One of the best novels about growing up fast' GUARDIAN

Notă biografică

Elaine Dundy (1921—2008) was born in New York City, and lived in Paris and London. She was married for a time to theater critic Kenneth Tynan. She wrote plays, novels, and biographies, including Elvis and Gladys and Life Itself! Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, and Vogue among other publications. Her novel, The Dud Avocado, was re-published by NYRB Classics in 2007.