This was supposed to be a funny book recently reissued by the NYRB press. The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy is the story of a young American woman living in Paris for a year. It's trying to be a cross between Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim and Breakfast at Tiffanys...I stopped halfway through since the voice of the narrator is annoying and over-arch and I realised I could care less about her or her situation. Humor, I am reminded, is a very personal thing. One woman's ha-ha is another woman's uh-oh.
No comments:
Post a Comment