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Elaine Dundy
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| Title: |
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Dud Avocado |
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No copies available |
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| Published in: |
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English |
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Mass Market Paperback |
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| Date: |
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1961-03-01 |
| ISBN: |
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0451027922 |
| Publisher: |
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Signet |
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0.5 pounds |
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5.0 x 7.0 x 1.0 inches |
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| Description: |
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Product Description
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?
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http://bookmooch.com/0451027922 |
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