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The Dud Avocado

Elaine Dundy


  • Little Brown (Hachette)
  • Virago Modern Classics
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.

ISBN 9780349010373 | E | B
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Publisher Little Brown (Hachette)
ISBN 9780349010373
Publication date May 2018
Edition Pb (B)
Dimensions mm
Language(s) Eng. ed.
Exhibition Virago Modern Classics
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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?

The Dud Avocado

The Dud Avocado

€15.50