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The Dud Avocado
Elaine Dundy
#UB8562
Paperback, 260 pages; 2007 (1958)
$14.95
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When it was first published in 1958, this comic novel was an enormous hit, receiving rave reviews and going quickly to reprint. We learn in Elaine Dundy's preface to this new edition that Ernest Hemingway, Laurence Olivier, and Groucho Marx all contacted her with praise for the book. Today, a half-century later, The Dud Avocado remains a lavishly charming, funny, and sexy novel about Sally Jay Gorce, the quintessential American girl in Paris. In her exuberant efforts to live life to the fullest, the lovably awkward young woman gets herself into a never-ending series of prickly predicaments. But, to the reader's great delight, Sally Jay faces every situation with daring panache and brisk humor. The Dud Avocado is a deliciously intoxicating portrait of the wilder side of the 1950s.
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