{"product_id":"dud-avocado-the-1","title":"Dud Avocado, The","description":"''One of the best novels about growing up fast'' GUARDIAN \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from the first sentence'' OBSERVER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Scandalous and entertaining . . . Both funny and true'' EVENING STANDARD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSally 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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?","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56793049858383,"sku":"9781853815812","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9781853815812_1-dud-avocado-the.jpg?v=1768020807","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/dud-avocado-the-1","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}