THE DUD AVOCADO gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. It is, as the GUARDIAN observes, 'one of the best novels about growing up fast'. 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 ...
In "The Dud Avocado," Dundy reveals the life of a young expatriate in Paris in all its hilarious and heartbreaking drama. With "The Old Man and Me," she tackles the American girl in London, a bit older, but certainly no wiser.
An intimate story of the King of Rock'n'Roll and his adoring mother - One of the best researched and most acclaimed books on Elvis's early life, reconstructs the pivotal role Gladys played in her son's formative years Reissued by popular demand after twenty years, Elvis and Gladys is a compelling narrative about a unique boy and the maternal tie ...
Elaine Dundy, a New Yorker born in the 1930s, is the author of "The Dud Avocado", based on a year she spent in Paris. Here she presents her memoirs which begin in classy apartments on Park Lane before the Crash, include a wild and funny time as an actress in Paris and London, and reveal all about her disastrous marriage to theatre critic Kenneth ...
Author of the celebrated and hilarious THE DUD AVOCADO, the classic novel about a young American ingenue in Paris, Elaine Dundy was born in New York in the 1930s. Her first years were spent in an apartment on Park Avenue until the stock market crash wiped out most of the family's money. She went to university in the south where, among other ...
Founded in 1903, Ferriday, Louisiana, claims to have produced more famous people per square mile than any other town in America. Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Lee Lewis, Mickey Gilley, and newscaster Howard K. Smith were born there. Dundy relates the story of a remarkable town and its people who encompass the entire American experience. Photographs.
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