{"product_id":"dud-avocado","title":"Elaine Dundy - Dud Avocado (VMC Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'One of the best novels about growing up fast' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGUARDIAN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from the first sentence' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Scandalous and entertaining . . . Both funny and true' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEVENING STANDARD\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Dud Avocado\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBooks included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFrost in May\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e by Antonia White; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Collected Stories of Grace Paley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFire from Heaven\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e by Mary Renault; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Magic Toyshop\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e by Angela Carter; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Weather in the Streets \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eby Rosamond Lehmann; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDeep Water\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e by Patricia Highsmith; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Return of the Soldier\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e by Rebecca West; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTheir Eyes Were Watching God\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e by Zora Neale Hurston; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHeartburn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e by Nora Ephron; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMemento Mori \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eby Muriel Spark; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eA View of the Harbour\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e by Elizabeth Taylor; and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFaces in the Water\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e by Janet Frame\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dead Sea Records","offers":[{"title":"As New","offer_id":52404765917496,"sku":"9780349010373","price":4.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/5803\/3464\/files\/9780349010373.jpg?v=1778518538","url":"https:\/\/www.deadsearecords.co.uk\/products\/dud-avocado","provider":"Dead Sea Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}