Dud Avocado

\'One of the best novels about growing up fast\' GUARDIAN \'One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from the first sentence\' OBSERVER\'Scandalous and entertaining . . . Both funny and true\' EVENING STANDARDThe Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. 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 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. 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? Σελίδες: 336, Διαστάσεις: 20.1x20.1cm