![]() ![]() Drop her in the middle of Paris' Left Bank. Take one zippy, curious, 21-year-old American named Sally Jay, just out of college. One of the funniest books I've ever read it should be subtitled Daisy Miller's Revenge. Fair enough, for here is a book primarily about sex and style.few writers ever soared so high and so delightfully.īefore Bridget Jones, deeply sweet and recklessly intimate Sally Jay Gorce trolled for love (Parisian style) in novelist (and sometime wife of theater critic Kenneth Tynan) Elaine Dundy's The Dud Avocado, a madcap read from 1958 that's finally back in print in the United States. ![]() Now, this favorite has been re-issued yet again, with a gorgeous black and white nude on the cover. The Dud Avocado opens with our beautiful and hapless heroine-imagine the panache of Holly Golightly crossed with the naive knowingness of Holden Caulfield-wandering one September morning through Paris in an evening dress. ![]()
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