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....

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....

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....

The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the American girl abroad, but it was Elaine Dundy\"s Sally Jay Gorce......