Literary Figures - Women's Biography, American Women - Literary Biography, U.S. Authors - 20th Century - Literary Biography
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Overview
Elaine Dundy, a New Yorker born in the 1930s, is the author of The Dud Avocado, based on a year she spent in Paris. Here she presents her memoirs which begin in classy apartments on Park Lane before the Crash, include a wild and funny time as an actress in Paris and London, and reveal all about her disastrous marriage to theater critic Kenneth Tynan. Her literary and theatrical circle—which included Peter Finch, Tennesse Williams, Hemingway, and Gore Vidal—is presented along with poignant remembrances of growing up in America in the 40s, and a literary and theatrical life in Paris and London.
Editorials
Gore Vidal
Her life among the lions on both sides of the Atlantic is not only witty but wise as she brings into focus one husband,Kenneth Tynan,one Orson Welles,the one and only Elvis Presley,and,not least of all,one lioness herself,surviving all.San Francisco Chronicle
[Dundy] pulls no punches in revealing details of the unpleasant side of her marriage to Tynan.Book Details
Published
July 4, 2002
Publisher
Virago Press Ltd
Pages
400
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781860495588