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Elaine Dundy - The Dud Avocado

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First published in 1958, this tells the fun adventures of a young American women in Paris.  Sally Jay Gorce is our heroine, and she behaves as you might expect a rebellious woman associating with bohemian types to behave. This novel is pretty relatable, and I have to admit I did not see the plot conclusion coming!  There are some nice lines I noticed: A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.  ..... I was still wearing the evening dress I had on when I met Larry that morning and the funny thing about it  was that, even thought twelve hours had elapsed since then, it still wasn't particualry appropriate, I mean I really felt I could expect it to be correct attire at some point of the day - like a watch that has stopped, eventually just happening to have its hands pointing to the right time. I can't understand it. I have quite a lot of clothes and go to quite a lot of places. I never actually seem to be w