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"The Dud Avocado "follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the American girl abroad, but it was Elaine Dundy's Sally Jay Gorce who told us what she was really thinking. Charming, sexy, and hilarious, "The Dud Avocado" gained instant cult status when it was first published and it remains a timeless portrait of a woman hell-bent on living. " I had to tell someone how much I enjoyed "The Dud Avocado." It made me laugh, scream, and guffaw (which, incidentally, is a great name for a law firm)." - Groucho Marx " ["The Dud Avocado"] is one of the best novels about growing up fast..." "-The Guardian"… (mehr)
In den 1950er Jahren lebt die junge Amerikanerin Sally Jay Gorce in Paris. sie schauspielert, feiert, lebt. Als freiheitsliebende Dreizehnjährige hat sie mit ihrem Onkel ausgehandelt, dass sie nach dem Schulabschluss zwei Jahre lang tun dürfe, was sie wolle, von ihm finanziert und ohne ihm Rechenschaft ablegen zu müssen oder sich bei ihm zu melden. Die Vorstellung des jungen Mädchens war: "Ich wollte Abends aufbleiben, so lange ich wollte, und essen, was und wann ich Lust hätte. Und ich wollte Menschen kennenlernen, denen ich nicht vorgestellt wurde. Und ich wollte die Dinge richtig einschätzen können." All das geschieht nun, als Sally Jay 21 ist, und obwohl die junge Frau durchaus Federn lässt, geht sie unbeschadet durch das Leben in Paris, zieht die richtigen Schlüsse und macht sich naiv-kluge Gedanken. Das Buch ist ausgesprochen witzig und scharfzüngig, ich habe es sehr gerne gelesen. ( )
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"I want you to meet Miss Gorce, she's in the embalming game." - James Thurber (Men, Women and Dogs)
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Es war ein warmer, friedlicher,. optimistisch stimmender Tag im September., als ich, wie ich mich noch entsinne, gegen elf Ihr morgens im Quartier Latin den Boulevard St. Michel hinunterschlenderte und meinen Gedanken nachhing, die wie kleine Seifenblasen durch meinen Kopf blubberten.
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And this was odd because two Americans re-encountering each other after a certain time in a foreign land are supposed to clamber up their nearest lampposts and wait tremblingly for it all to blow over. Especially me. I'd made a vow when I got over here never to speak to anyone I'd ever known before. Yet here we were, two Americans who hadn't really seen each other for years; here was someone from "home" who knew me when, if you like, and, instead of shambling back into the bushes like a startled rhino, I was absolutely thrilled at the whole idea.
I began floating down those Elysian Fields three inches off the ground, as easily as a Cocteau character floats through Hell.
Whereas I was hell-bent for living, she was content, at least for the time being, to leave all that to others. Just as long as she could hear all about it. She really was funny about this. Folded every which way on the floor, looking like Bambi - all eyes and legs and no chin - she would listen for ages and ages with rapt attention to absolutely any drivel that you happened to be talking. It was unbelievable
(People really do say You Americans, by the way.)
There was quite a large group around him that evening; many of the Hard Core and, to get really technical - all the Inner Hard Core.
That was another thing about the Hard Core, though maybe not the nicest. They went all out for satire. They not only suffered fools, they suffered them gladly. And I mean they sought them out; they tracked them down. Only they had to be really big ones.
There's plenty to be said for the theory that giving money to a beggar only encourages poverty; certainly without the small donations that I and others felt obliged to contribute from time to time, the epic battle of Blair versus No Visible Means of Support would have ended long ago.
I could see that he didn't love any of them, that he didn't even particular like them; he - I don't know what he them'd.
I mean I simply don't know what to do about a Nude Show. I just can't seem to behave naturally in front of them. The thing is, I don't get much of a charge out of them in the first place, so any act I put on is bound to be a phony. But I still haven't discovered what you're supposed to do. I mean if you stare straight ahead with a bright smile pasted on your face you're being a prig, and if you look at it critically and say "They're really not so hot are they?" you're being jealous, and if you fling yourself into it and say "Oh, golly, doesn't she have a lovely body" someone looks at you very peculiarly and says "Hmm. You like her do you? That's very interesting," and if you just relax and look bored, you've committed the greatest crime of all
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"The Dud Avocado "follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the American girl abroad, but it was Elaine Dundy's Sally Jay Gorce who told us what she was really thinking. Charming, sexy, and hilarious, "The Dud Avocado" gained instant cult status when it was first published and it remains a timeless portrait of a woman hell-bent on living. " I had to tell someone how much I enjoyed "The Dud Avocado." It made me laugh, scream, and guffaw (which, incidentally, is a great name for a law firm)." - Groucho Marx " ["The Dud Avocado"] is one of the best novels about growing up fast..." "-The Guardian"
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All das geschieht nun, als Sally Jay 21 ist, und obwohl die junge Frau durchaus Federn lässt, geht sie unbeschadet durch das Leben in Paris, zieht die richtigen Schlüsse und macht sich naiv-kluge Gedanken. Das Buch ist ausgesprochen witzig und scharfzüngig, ich habe es sehr gerne gelesen. (