A review by rosemarieshort
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy

5.0

I read The Dud Avocado straight after Eve Babitz’s Sex and Rage - to me it was a perfect complimentary duo in terms of theme. Dundy’s book is an earlier set story of a naive American girl swept up in the complex world of 50s Paris. Sally Jay, for all her faults (and perhaps because of them) I found to be an endlessly likeable heroine. The supporting cast of characters also keep things lively, and the 300 or so pages flew by in a haze of jazz bars, cocktails and french villas.