David's review
The Dud Avocado
by Elaine Dundy
David's review
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
David's review
rating:
I picked this one up per Terry Teachout's recommendation - he's the drama critic for the Wall Street Journal, and also wrote an excellent biography of H.L. Mencken. This is a favorite of his, and I certainly wasn't disappointed - you'd be hard pressed to find a better light reading experience. It's an innocent abroad story - Sally Jay Gorce travels to Paris, pursues acting, loses her virginity, and does all the funny things you'd expect an inexperience girl to do in a foreign city. It's laugh-out-loud funny, and how can you not like a book with great lines like "they were so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable" and "it's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you."
