Аннотация: The Dud Avocado

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 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. But 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?

Автор/составитель	Dundy Elaine
Серия	Virago Modern Classics Hardback
Год выпуска	2011
ISBN	9781844087600
Производитель	Virago
Количество томов	1
Количество страниц	336
Переплет	Твёрдый переплёт
Размеры	206x135x30 мм
Цвет	Жёлтый
Тип бумаги	офсетная (60-220 г/м2)
Вес	460
Язык	английский