The dud avocado
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The dud avocado
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- Label
- The dud avocado
- Statement of responsibility
- Elaine Dundy ; introduction by Terry Teachout
- Subject
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- trueAmericans in Paris, France
- trueBohemianism -- Paris, France
- trueExpatriates -- Paris, France
- Fiction
- Fiction
- France
- trueFrance -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- trueLove
- trueMate selection for young women
- trueMen/women relations
- trueMisadventures
- trueParis, France -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- trueSingle women -- Paris, France
- trueYoung women -- Paris, France
- Humorous fiction
- Americans
- Americans -- France -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the American girl abroad, but it was Elaine Dundy's Sally Jay Gorce who told us what she was really thinking. Charming, sexy, and hilarious, The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status when it was first published and it remains a timeless portrait of a woman hell-bent on living
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3554.U466
- LC item number
- D83 2007
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
- New York Review Books classics
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