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by Elaine Dundy
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Availability:In StockContributor:Elaine Dundy, Elaine Dundy (Introduction by)Series:New York Review Books ClassicsPublish date:2009-06-16Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590173176ISBN-10:1590173171UPC:9781590173176Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Women, HumorousBook Topic:Black HumorSize:7.94 x 5.04 x 0.53 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SCYZYCGCRZ
A sly, funny novel about an American girl trying to make it in 1960s London-and discovering that she's in over head.

In The Dud Avocado, Elaine Dundy revealed the life of the young expatriate in Paris in all its hilarious and heartbreaking drama. With The Old Man and Me, written when Dundy was living in England in the early 1960s, she tackles the American girl in London, a bit older but certainly no wiser.

Honey Flood (if that's her real name) arrives in London with only her quick wits and a scheme. To get what she wants, she'll have to seduce the city's brightest literary star, no matter how many would-be bohemians she has to charm, how many smoky jazz clubs she has to brave, or how many Lady Something-Somethings she has to humor. But with success within her reach, Honey finds that in making the Soho scene, she's made a big mistake.
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590173176ISBN-10:1590173171UPC:9781590173176Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Women, HumorousBook Topic:Black HumorSize:7.94 x 5.04 x 0.53 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SCYZYCGCRZ
Elaine Dundy (1921-2008) grew up in New York City and Long Island. After graduating from Sweet Briar College in 1943 she worked as an actress in Paris and, later, London, where she met her future husband, the theater critic Kenneth Tynan. Dundy wrote three novels, The Dud Avocado (1958), The Old Man and Me (1964), and The Injured Party (1974); a play, My Place (produced in 1962); biographies of Elvis Presley and the actor Peter Finch; a study of Ferriday, Louisiana; and a memoir, Life Itself!
Publisher: New York Review of Books

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