The Old Man And Me by Elaine Dundy
A wickedly funny novel about falling in love with an Old Man and the Old World, despite the best intentions.
It is a glimpse of a vanished world, a city which did not require a fortune if one were to carouse, an suffer, in its more pleasant quarters * The Times *
A gloriously funny novel. . it still brings a smile to my face forty years later -- Jilly Cooper
Definitely demonic, exquisitely carved, deadly murderous comedy -- Dawn Powell * Washington Post *
In this, in a way a sequel to her classic The Dud Avocado, Elaine Dundy's young and sexy American heroine, named (excellently) Honey Flood this time, parks herself in London, hellbent on sleeping and conniving and boozing her way to the top * Los Angeles Times *
There isn't a dull line in it -- P. G. Wodehouse
A dedicatedly nasty little novel. Through it all, Miss Dundy's prose glitters like confetti against the gray English sky * Newsweek *
There isn't a dull line in it * P. G. Wodehouse *
A gloriously funny novel ... it still brings a smile to my face forty years later * Jilly Cooper *
A dedicatedly nasty little novel. Through it all, Miss Dundy's prose glitters like confetti against the gray English sky * NEWSWEEK *
Fierce, gamey, vixenish - as if it was bled not written and one is left with a stack of feathers and cracked bones and witch laughter. Definitely demonic, exquisitely carved, deadly murderous comedy * Dawn Powell, Book Week (NY HERALD TRIBUNE, WASHINGTON POST, SF EXAMINER) *
A gloriously funny novel. . it still brings a smile to my face forty years later -- Jilly Cooper
Definitely demonic, exquisitely carved, deadly murderous comedy -- Dawn Powell * Washington Post *
In this, in a way a sequel to her classic The Dud Avocado, Elaine Dundy's young and sexy American heroine, named (excellently) Honey Flood this time, parks herself in London, hellbent on sleeping and conniving and boozing her way to the top * Los Angeles Times *
There isn't a dull line in it -- P. G. Wodehouse
A dedicatedly nasty little novel. Through it all, Miss Dundy's prose glitters like confetti against the gray English sky * Newsweek *
There isn't a dull line in it * P. G. Wodehouse *
A gloriously funny novel ... it still brings a smile to my face forty years later * Jilly Cooper *
A dedicatedly nasty little novel. Through it all, Miss Dundy's prose glitters like confetti against the gray English sky * NEWSWEEK *
Fierce, gamey, vixenish - as if it was bled not written and one is left with a stack of feathers and cracked bones and witch laughter. Definitely demonic, exquisitely carved, deadly murderous comedy * Dawn Powell, Book Week (NY HERALD TRIBUNE, WASHINGTON POST, SF EXAMINER) *
Elaine Dundy (1921-2008) grew up in New York City and Long Island. After graduating from Sweet Briar College in 1943, she worked as an actress in Paris and, later, London, where she met her future husband, the theater critic Kenneth Tynan.
Dundy wrote three novels, The Dud Avocado (1958), The Old Man and Me (1964), and The Injured Party (1974); a play, My Place (produced in 1962); biographies of Elvis Presley and the actor Peter Finch; a study of Ferriday, Louisiana; and a memoir, Life Itself!
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781844081240 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844081249 |
| Title | The Old Man And Me |
| Author | Elaine Dundy |
| Series | Virago Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2005-08-04 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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