"Basically, if you were to set Henry James' "Portrait of a Lady" near the Sorbonne, untangle the sentences and add more slapstick, sex and champagne cocktails, you're getting close." - Rosecrans Baldwin, NPR's "All Things Considered"

"Already singled out in "O" the Oprah Magazine and named an Amazon.com 'mover and shaker, ' this edition will...introduce a new readership to the unforgettable Sally Jay Gorce, described by one reviewer as a cross between Carrie Bradshaw and Holden Caulfield." --"Los Angeles Times"

"Before Bridget Jones, deeply sweet and recklessly intimate Sally Jay Gorce trolled for love (Parisian style) in novelist (and sometime wife of theater critic Kenneth Tynan) Elaine Dundy's "The Dud Avocado," a madcap read from 1958 that's finally back in print in the United States." --"O Magazine"

""The Dud Avocado" follows a charming, if blundering, 21-year-old Missouri native, Sally Jay Gorce, who spends two postcollege years sipping Pernod on "la plus belle avenue du monde," the Champs-elysees; staging William Saroyan and Tennessee Williams with an American theater troupe, and fumbling terribly at love." --"The New York Sun"

"Think Daisy Miller with a dash of "Fear of Flying"; "My Sister Eileen" with a soupcon of "Sex and the City"; Anita Loos crossed with Allen Ginsberg." --"The Philadelphia Inquirer"

"Now, this favorite has been re-issued yet again, with a gorgeous black and white nude on the cover. Fair enough, for here is a book primarily about sex and style...few writers ever soared so high and so delightfully." --"Los Angeles Times"

""The Dud Avocado" opens with our beautiful and hapless heroine--imagine the panache of Holly Golightly crossed with the naive knowingness of Holden Caulfield--wandering one September morning through Paris in an evening dress." --"Boston Globe"

"Elaine Dundy's semi-autobiographical novel "The Dud Avocado," which follows the romantic escapades of Sally Jay Gorce--an irrepressibl