{"product_id":"dud-avocado","title":"The Dud Avocado, Elaine Dundy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Dud Avocado\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSally 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. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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":"Virago Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61020788752718,"sku":"9780349010373","price":6.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0842\/6546\/8238\/files\/9780349010373.jpg?v=1790782700","url":"https:\/\/littlelanebookshop.com\/products\/dud-avocado","provider":"Little Lane Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}