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Dud Avocado (VMC Designer Collection)
Elaine Dundy
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Description for Dud Avocado (VMC Designer Collection)
Hardcover.
'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Virago
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844087600
SKU
V9781844087600
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Ref
99-96
About Elaine Dundy
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Dud Avocado (VMC Designer Collection)
Readers turn to it again and again for its jokes, which are very funny and remain so after a dozen readings
Rachel Cooke
Guardian
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
Observer ... Read more
Rachel Cooke
Guardian
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
Observer ... Read more