The Dud Avocado (Virago Modern Classics) by Elaine Dundy

By Elaine Dundy

The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a tender American who heads abroad to beat Paris within the overdue Nineteen Fifties. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote concerning the American lady out of the country, however it was once Elaine Dundy’s Sally Jay Gorce who informed us what she used to be relatively considering. captivating, horny, and hilarious, The Dud Avocado won immediate cult prestige whilst it was once first released and it continues to be a undying portrait of a girl hell-bent on living.

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The Dud Avocado (Virago Modern Classics)

The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a tender American who heads in a foreign country to beat Paris within the overdue Nineteen Fifties. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote in regards to the American lady out of the country, however it used to be Elaine Dundy’s Sally Jay Gorce who advised us what she was once relatively pondering. fascinating, attractive, and hilarious, The Dud Avocado received immediate cult prestige whilst it used to be first released and it continues to be a undying portrait of a lady hell-bent on dwelling.

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I got no reply and then I gave up hope and remembered exactly what she had said. ' I thought with hatred, she always has to show up well in her own mirror: she mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble to herself. She won't admit that now she prefers to go to bed with X. That was the worst period of all: it is my profession to imagine, to think in images: fifty times through the day, and immediately I woke during the night, a curtain would rise and the play would begin: always the same play, Sarah making love, Sarah with X, doing the same things that we had done together, Sarah kissing in her own particular way, arching herself in the act of sex and uttering that cry like pain, Sarah in abandonment.

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all. The arguments always took the same form and I only describe one particular occasion because on that occasion the argument ended in action - a stupid action leading nowhere, unless eventually to this doubt that always comes when I begin to write, the feeling that after all perhaps she was right and I was wrong. I remember saying angrily, 'This is just a hang-over from your old frigidity.

I went out of the pub, leaving the girl with her whisky to finish and a pound-note as a salve to her pride, and walked up New Burlington Street as far as a telephone-box. I had no torch with me and I was forced to strike match after match before I could complete the dialling of my number. Then I heard the ringing tone and I could imagine the telephone where it stood on my desk and I knew exactly how many steps Sarah would have to take to reach it if she were sitting in a chair or lying on the bed.

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