If you're looking for an easy read and don't feel quite vegetative enough to sink to airport potboiler level, try Elaine Dundy's "The Dud Avocado" (NYRB Classics). Published in 1958, it tells the story of one Sally Jay Gorce, American girl on the loose in Paris. But the clichés end ... </img>
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