{"product_id":"book-pj95","title":"The Dud Avocado","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Dud Avocado\u003c\/em\u003e gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. It is, as \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e observes, \"one of the best novels about growing up fast.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eSally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. It's the 1950s, she's young, and she's in Paris. Having dyed her hair pink, she wears evening dresses in the daytime and vows to go native in a way not even the natives can manage. Embarking on an educational program that includes an affair with a married man (which fizzles out when she realizes he's single and wants to marry her); nights in cabarets and jazz clubs in the company of assorted \"citizens of the world\"; an entanglement with a charming psychopath; and a bit part in a film financed by a famous matador. But an education like this doesn't come cheap. Will our heroine be forced back to the States to fulfill her destiny as a librarian, or can she keep up her whirlwind Parisian existence? \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49118257840363,"sku":"DZpj95","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/2127\/6139\/files\/pj95-Square-cover.jpg?v=1785188288","url":"https:\/\/www.blackstoneunlimited.com\/products\/book-pj95","provider":"Blackstone Unlimited","version":"1.0","type":"link"}