{"product_id":"the-dud-avocado","title":"The Dud Avocado","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. It's the 1950s, she's young and she's in Paris.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHaving 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWill 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":"Elaine Dundy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55042794684803,"sku":"9780349010373","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-2025-02-09T153200.887.png?v=1739115137","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/the-dud-avocado","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}