{"product_id":"9780349010373","title":"The Dud Avocado","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Dundy, Elaine, Cooke, Rachel, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 03\/05\/2018,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 336 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: Virago Modern Classics, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Virago Press Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Little, Brown Book Group,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780349010373\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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'. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt'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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEmbarking 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35022651457689,"sku":"9780349010373","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780349010373.jpg?v=1602536995","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780349010373","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}