{"product_id":"the-dud-avocado","title":"Elaine Dundy: The Dud Avocado [1993] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the best novels about growing up fast' \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from the first sentence' \u003ci\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Scandalous and entertaining . . . Both funny and true' \u003ci\u003eEVENING STANDARD\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dud Avocado\u003c\/i\u003e gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSally 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dundy, Elaine \u0026 Cooke, Rachel","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":47668476805459,"sku":"9781853815812","price":14.27,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":54165107048787,"sku":"XG81853815812","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47629480460627,"sku":"XV81853815812","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/dundy-elaine-cooke-rachel-elaine-dundy-the-dud-avocado-1993-paperback-1246863083.jpg?v=1782996579","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/the-dud-avocado","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}