{"product_id":"the-dud-avocado-elaine-dundy-9798228681774","title":"The Dud Avocado","description":"\u003cp\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. It is, as \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e observes, \"one of the best novels about growing up fast.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 program that includes an affair with a married man (which fizzles out when she realizes 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? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elaine Dundy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798228681774\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blackstone Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e MP3 CD","brand":"Elaine Dundy","offers":[{"title":"MP3 CD","offer_id":47760962748671,"sku":"9798228681774","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2bc4f5d9-d2d7-45bf-af6c-7f1044b81853.jpg?v=1765514392","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-dud-avocado-elaine-dundy-9798228681774","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}