{"product_id":"the-dud-avocado","title":"The Dud Avocado","description":"'One of the best novels about growing up fast' GUARDIAN \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from the first sentence' OBSERVER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Scandalous and entertaining . . . Both funny and true' EVENING STANDARD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. \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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBooks included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor; and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57787208270150,"sku":"9780349010373","price":17.13,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/3081\/3510\/files\/13104229b7d07a33811ab9762be8c5570650b9cc846012952e54250cf2a13852.jpg?v=1793842514","url":"https:\/\/www.averdo.com\/en\/products\/the-dud-avocado","provider":"Averdo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}