Someone I love: Joan Wyndham Someone I hate: Ernest Hemingway Combine them and you get: Elaine Dundy As you can imagine, I had a strange combination of feelings about The Dud Avocado. It’s a semi-autobiographical novel about a young expatriate American party girl and her relationship with an American man called Larry, whom she runs across in Paris. When she runs into Larry, she’s involved with a married Italian, but she immediately fancies herself in love with Larry and becomes involved in a theatre production that he’s directing. Along the way she has various romantic entanglements and – well, okay,…
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