Tag: one time the civics teacher at my school told her class that Ernest Hemingway killed himself because he was an expatriate and when you are an expatriate you get depressed and suicidal

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,…