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    612-822-4611

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The Dud Avocado

The Dud Avocado

Dundy, Elaine
Bennett, Erin

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ISBN13: 9798228681767
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: Jan 20 2026
Weight: 0.45
Height: 1.03 Width: 5.68 Depth: 5.44
Language: English

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 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?

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