"Delightful.her portrait of the Left Bank expatriates is caustically funny." -Time The result: a delightful few hours of sparkling reading entertainment. Add an Italian diplomat, an American theatrical director, a couple of painters and a white slave trader. Drop her in the middle of Paris' Left Bank. "Take one zippy, curious, 21-year-old American named Sally Jay, just out of college. "The gayest and most cheerful novel about Americans in Paris I have read.a dazzling performance-as light as a champagne bubble, as continuously attention-getting as a juggler keeping seven swords in the air at the same time." - The New York Times "Elaine Dundy's semi-autobiographical novel The Dud Avocado, which follows the romantic escapades of Sally Jay Gorce-an irrepressible young woman seeking adventure in '50s Paris-contains a lot of what makes fiction fun: charm, wit, and devastatingly sharp insights." -Very Short List " 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." - Boston Globe Fair enough, for here is a book primarily about sex and style.few writers ever soared so high and so delightfully." - Los Angeles Times
"Now, this favorite has been re-issued yet again, with a gorgeous black and white nude on the cover. "Think Daisy Miller with a dash of Fear of Flying My Sister Eileen with a soupçon of Sex and the City Anita Loos crossed with Allen Ginsberg." - The Philadelphia Inquirer
" The Dud Avocado follows a charming, if blundering, 21-year-old Missouri native, Sally Jay Gorce, who spends two postcollege years sipping Pernod on "la plus belle avenue du monde," the Champs-Élysées staging William Saroyan and Tennessee Williams with an American theater troupe, and fumbling terribly at love." - The New York Sun "Before 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." - O Magazine "Already singled out in O the Oprah Magazine and named an 'mover and shaker,' this edition will.introduce a new readership to the unforgettable Sally Jay Gorce, described by one reviewer as a cross between Carrie Bradshaw and Holden Caulfield." - Los Angeles Times “Basically, if you were to set Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady near the Sorbonne, untangle the sentences and add more slapstick, sex and champagne cocktails, you’re getting close.” - Rosecrans Baldwin, NPR's "All Things Considered"
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