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  • Book Review: The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy


    Published by Virago Modern Classics
    ISBN 1 85381 581 0
    Price £5.95
    Reviewed by Dianne Blashill
    Available from Amazon

    Set in the 1950’s American Sally Jay Gorce has coerced her eccentric Uncle Roger into giving her an allowance to enable her to explore and live ‘life’ for 2 years, the deal being that he doesn’t want to hear from her until the time is up then she is to come back and tell him all about it.

    The story opens in Paris where Sally is about to dump her Italian lover because she has fallen in love with a fellow American Larry. The Italian lover takes her dismissal of him badly and extracts revenge; which has far reaching consequences.

    Sally is a tour de force, she drinks too much, forgets to collect her laundry and has to wear evening clothes during the day, she dyes her hair unsuitable colours; looses her possessions, jewellery and finally her passport. She falls in love with an artist but leaves him for a holiday by the sea with people who seem to be much more interesting and winds up on a film set with a Spanish bullfighter.

    This is a right of passage novel, it is a bubbly and entertaining love letter to Paris. Anyone who doesn’t have a need to sashay down the Avenue des Champs Elysées, fall in love over a champagne cocktail and live life to the full after finishing the book has no soul.

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