{"title":"Elaine Dundy","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"old-man-and-me-book-elaine-dundy-9781844081240","title":"The Old Man And Me","description":"'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  ' Elaine Dundy's young and sexy American heroine, named (excellently) Honey Flood' LOS ANGELES TIMES  In The Dud Avocado, Elaine Dundy revealed the life of the young expatriate in Paris in all its hilarious and heartbreaking drama. With The Old Man and Me, written when Dundy was living in England in the early 1960s, she tackles the American girl in London, a bit older but certainly no wiser.   There's love and there's revenge. Betsy Lou Saegessor is bent on revenge.  Her father is dead and to top it off, the vast fortune that should have been hers has ended up, through the second marriage of her now deceased stepmother,  in the bank account of the legendary and elusive Englishman, C. D. McKee.  So Betsy sets out from New York to seduce and betray him. C .D. is fat and ugly,  but boy is he sexy. Betsy follows him through the night clubs of London, grooving to jazz, smoking hash and plotting murder.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49511104381201,"sku":"GOR003447785","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50455685792017,"sku":"CIN1844081249G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53039338619153,"sku":"GOR011211157","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1844081249.jpg?v=1773920199"},{"product_id":"dud-avocado-book-elaine-dundy-9781853815812","title":"The Dud Avocado","description":"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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49515150967057,"sku":"GOR000380949","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49734797820177,"sku":"NGR9781853815812","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49868853215505,"sku":"CIN1853815810A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50005994733841,"sku":"GOR009006487","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50109549281553,"sku":"GOR001209830","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51461287411985,"sku":"CIN1853815810VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52107250204945,"sku":"CIN1853815810G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52780710428945,"sku":"GOR002909846","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1853815810.jpg?v=1773917659"},{"product_id":"dud-avocado-book-elaine-dundy-9780349010373","title":"The Dud Avocado","description":"A hugely entertaining novel of sex, lies and Americans in Paris, dripping with the sarcasm those Americans are not supposed to have. Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Virago Modern Classics.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49525446279441,"sku":"CIN0349010374G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49566519230737,"sku":"GOR009373788","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49665434288401,"sku":"GOR010948392","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49727645122833,"sku":"GOR010108924","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49728501973265,"sku":"NGR9780349010373","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50479451406609,"sku":"GOR010116030","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0349010374.jpg?v=1773916712"},{"product_id":"elvis-and-gladys-book-elaine-dundy-9780708830871","title":"Elvis and Gladys","description":"The account of Elvis's relationship with his mother Gladys, which provides insights into his real personality.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49534272864529,"sku":"GOR001805180","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49665791000849,"sku":"GOR001706938","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49850547208465,"sku":"GOR001789998","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0708830870.jpg?v=1751327623"},{"product_id":"life-itself-book-elaine-dundy-9781860495588","title":"Life Itself!","description":"Author of the celebrated and hilarious THE DUD AVOCADO, the classic novel about a young American ingenue in Paris, Elaine Dundy was born in New York in the 1930s. Her first years were spent in an apartment on Park Avenue until the stock market crash wiped out most of the family's money. She went to university in the south where, among other studies, she worked hard at losing her virginity. Deciding the stage was her true home, Elaine Dundy headed first to Paris and then to London, where she met and married the famous theatre critic Kenneth Tynan. Though their union was intoxicating, it was far from easy and the successful publication in 1958 of her novel finished off the marriage. But it was the opening of a new world of writers for Elaine Dundy, including friendships with Tennessee Williams, Hemingway and Gore Vidal. Extremely funny and extraordinarily honest this wonderfully remembered story of growing up in America is as much a tonic as life itself.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49541396168977,"sku":"GOR002209298","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49962927620369,"sku":"CIN1860495583G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50778326008081,"sku":"GOR010547691","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50936673403153,"sku":"CIN1860495583VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51523479437585,"sku":"GOR003742307","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52107593285905,"sku":"CIN1860495583A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1860495583.jpg?v=1751027651"},{"product_id":"finch-bloody-finch-book-elaine-dundy-9780718119041","title":"Finch, Bloody Finch","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49579459346705,"sku":"GOR003787813","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49655139729681,"sku":"GOR002717065","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50491109966097,"sku":"GOR002720892","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0718119045.jpg?v=1750744113"},{"product_id":"dud-avocado-book-elaine-dundy-9781844087600","title":"The Dud Avocado","description":"'One of the best novels about growing up fast' GUARDIAN   'One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from the first sentence' OBSERVER  'Scandalous and entertaining . . . Both funny and true' EVENING STANDARD  The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living.   Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. It's the 1950s, she's young and she's in Paris. Having dyed her hair pink, she wears evening dresses in the daytime and vows to go native in a way not even the natives can manage. Embarking on an educational programme that includes an affair with a married man (which fizzles out when she realises he's single and wants to marry her); nights in cabarets and jazz clubs in the company of assorted \"citizens of the world\"; an entanglement with a charming psychopath and a bit part in a film financed by a famous matador.   But an education like this doesn't come cheap. Will our heroine be forced back to the States to fulfill her destiny as a librarian, or can she keep up her whirlwind Parisian existence?","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49588380172561,"sku":"GOR003344386","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50323258343697,"sku":"GOR008787087","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50494340595985,"sku":"GOR007878272","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51256342675729,"sku":"GOR003239755","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1844087603.jpg?v=1773918187"},{"product_id":"finch-bloody-finch-book-elaine-dundy-9780030417962","title":"Finch, Bloody Finch","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis edition of Lady Amabel Kerr's life of Cardinal Baronius has been reprinted from the original, it is not a facsimile. Many pictures of the subjects in the work have been added as well as adjustments to some of the archaic 19th century words to make the work more readable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49626351173905,"sku":"GOR004015418","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50445856276753,"sku":"GOR006130085","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50860047499537,"sku":"CIN0030417961VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51304154824977,"sku":"GOR008221173","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51692004835601,"sku":"CIN0030417961G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0030417961.jpg?v=1751069650"},{"product_id":"life-itself-book-elaine-dundy-9781860495137","title":"Life Itself!","description":"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 theatre critic Kenneth Tynan. Her literary and theatrical circle - which included Peter Finch (about whom she later wrote a biography) and 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49637967921425,"sku":"GOR007778367","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49918113251601,"sku":"GOR001380350","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50503901020433,"sku":"GOR003273020","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1860495133.jpg?v=1751432914"},{"product_id":"dud-avocado-book-elaine-dundy-9781590172322","title":"The Dud Avocado","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA smart, funny classic about a young and beautiful American woman who moves to Paris determined to live life to the fullest. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Dud Avocado \u003c\/i\u003efollows 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Dud Avocado\u003c\/i\u003e gained instant cult status when it was first published and it remains a timeless portrait of a woman hell-bent on living. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e I had to tell someone how much I enjoyed \u003ci\u003eThe Dud Avocado.\u003c\/i\u003e It made me laugh, scream, and guffaw (which, incidentally, is a great name for a law firm). -Groucho Marx \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003eThe Dud Avocado\u003c\/i\u003e] is one of the best novels about growing up fast. \u003ci\u003e-The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49678921531665,"sku":"CIN1590172329G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49943930798353,"sku":"CIN1590172329A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50096750756113,"sku":"GOR003198379","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50288535208209,"sku":"CIN1590172329VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037705830673,"sku":"NIN9781590172322","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1590172329.jpg?v=1750895273"},{"product_id":"elvis-and-gladys-book-elaine-dundy-9780025539105","title":"Elvis and Gladys","description":"Who on the planet doesn't know that Elvis Presley gave electrifying performances and enthralled millions? Who doesn't know that he was the King of Rock 'n' Roll? But who knows that the King himself lived in the thrall of one dominant person? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis was Gladys Smith Presley, his protective, indulgent, beloved mother. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eElvis and Gladys\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the best researched and most acclaimed books on Elvis's early life, reconstructs the extraordinary role Gladys played in her son's formative years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUncovering facts not seen by other biographers, \u003ci\u003eElvis and Gladys\u003c\/i\u003e reconstructs for the first time the history of the mother and son's devoted relationship and reveals new information about Elvis--his Cherokee ancestry, his boyhood obsession with comic books, and his early compulsion to rescue his family from poverty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eComing to life in the compelling narrative is the poignant story of a unique boy and the maternal tie that bound him. It is at once an intimate psychological portrait of a tragic relationship and a mesmerizing tale of the early years of an international idol. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor once, a legend is presented to us by the mind and heart of a literate, careful biographer who cares, wrote Liz Smith in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e when \u003ci\u003eElvis and Gladys\u003c\/i\u003e was originally published in 1985. This is the book, Smith says, for any Elvis lover who wants to know more about what made Presley the man he was and the mama's boy he became. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e called this thoughtful, informative biography of one of popular music's most enduring stars nothing less than the best Elvis book yet.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49759983010065,"sku":"CIN0025539108G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0025539108.jpg?v=1750874987"},{"product_id":"old-man-and-me-book-elaine-dundy-9781590173176","title":"The Old Man and Me","description":"\u003cb\u003eA sly, funny novel about an American girl trying to make it in 1960s London-and discovering that she's in over head. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Dud Avocado\u003c\/i\u003e, Elaine Dundy revealed the life of the young expatriate in Paris in all its hilarious and heartbreaking drama. With \u003ci\u003eThe Old Man and Me\u003c\/i\u003e, written when Dundy was living in England in the early 1960s, she tackles the American girl in London, a bit older but certainly no wiser.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Honey Flood (if that's her real name) arrives in London with only her quick wits and a scheme. To get what she wants, she'll have to seduce the city's brightest literary star, no matter how many would-be bohemians she has to charm, how many smoky jazz clubs she has to brave, or how many Lady Something-Somethings she has to humor. But with success within her reach, Honey finds that in making the Soho scene, she's made a big mistake.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49930524950801,"sku":"CIN1590173171G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50296503730449,"sku":"CIN1590173171VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50529434829073,"sku":"GOR006810377","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51038326227217,"sku":"NIN9781590173176","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53398708125969,"sku":"GOR014904391","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1590173171.jpg?v=1751245398"},{"product_id":"ferriday-louisiana-book-elaine-dundy-9781556111440","title":"Ferriday Louisiana","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50005409693969,"sku":"CIN1556111444G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1556111444.jpg?v=1751150236"},{"product_id":"the-dud-avocado-rare-book-elaine-dundy-1674799324ada","title":"The Dud Avocado","description":"1960. No Edition Remarks. 254 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Neat, clean, with heavy tanning and foxing to pages and text block edges. Occasional thumbing throughout and mild cracking to","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50039431561489,"sku":"1674799324ADA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1674799324ADA_1.jpg?v=1722375787"},{"product_id":"the-dud-avocado-rare-book-elaine-dundy-1622206340ada","title":"The Dud Avocado","description":"1961. Reprint. 255 pages. Orange and white paperback. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Covers have moderate tanning with creasing and reading lines. Book has forward lean. Spine is he","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50069274820881,"sku":"1622206340ADA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1622206340ADA_1.jpg?v=1722866606"},{"product_id":"the-old-man-and-me-rare-book-elaine-dundy-1698390955ada","title":"The Old Man and Me","description":"1964. No edition remarks. 208 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing. Mild cracking to front hinge, however binding remains firm. Boards have l","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50084456071441,"sku":"1698390955ADA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1698390955ADA_1.jpg?v=1722919470"},{"product_id":"the-dud-avocado-rare-book-elaine-dundy-1707902122ada","title":"The Dud Avocado","description":"1958. Second Impression. 272 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Light tanning to otherwise clear pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers, with visi","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50087011221777,"sku":"1707902122ADA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1707902122ADA_1.jpg?v=1722928079"},{"product_id":"the-dud-avocado-rare-book-elaine-dundy-1720611416mha","title":"The Dud Avocado","description":"1958. Third Impression. 272 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptio","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50093418905873,"sku":"1720611416MHA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1720611416MHA_1.jpg?v=1722950177"},{"product_id":"elvis-and-gladys-book-elaine-dundy-9781578066346","title":"Elvis and Gladys","description":"Who on the planet doesn't know that Elvis Presley gave electrifying performances and enthralled millions? Who doesn't know that he was the King of Rock 'n' Roll? But who knows that the King himself lived in the thrall of one dominant person?This was Gladys Smith Presley, his protective, indulgent, beloved mother.  Elvis and Gladys, one of the best researched and most acclaimed books on Elvis's early life, reconstructs the extraordinary role Gladys played in her son's formative years. Uncovering facts not seen by other biographers, Elvis and Gladys reconstructs for the first time the history of the mother and son's devoted relationship and reveals new information about Elvis--his Cherokee ancestry, his boyhood obsession with comic books, and his early compulsion to rescue his family from poverty.  Coming to life in the compelling narrative is the poignant story of a unique boy and the maternal tie that bound him. It is at once an intimate psychological portrait of a tragic relationship and a mesmerizing tale of the early years of an international idol.  \"\"For once, a legend is presented to us by the mind and heart of a literate, careful biographer who cares,\"\" wrote Liz Smith in the New York Daily News when Elvis and Gladys was originally published in 1985. This is the book, Smith says, \"\"for any Elvis lover who wants to know more about what made Presley the man he was and the mama's boy he became.\"\"The Boston Globe called this thoughtful, informative biography of one of popular music's most enduring stars \"\"nothing less than the best Elvis book yet.\"\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50267097235729,"sku":"GOR004914287","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50280523628817,"sku":"CIN1578066344VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51038203281681,"sku":"NIN9781578066346","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51721826533649,"sku":"GOR014377996","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52422650265873,"sku":"NLS9781578066346","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52706281881873,"sku":"CIN1578066344G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1578066344.jpg?v=1763221114"},{"product_id":"elvis-and-gladys-book-elaine-dundy-9780712661799","title":"Elvis and Gladys","description":"This study of Elvis Presley and his background seeks to explain his musical roots and career by an examination of the relationship with his possessive, dominant mother, Gladys.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50582630269201,"sku":"GOR001493448","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50667198677265,"sku":"GOR004346536","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52498434851089,"sku":"GOR002447264","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0712661794.jpg?v=1751435647"},{"product_id":"elvis-and-gladys-book-elaine-dundy-9780297782100","title":"Elvis and Gladys","description":"The account of Elvis's relationship with his mother Gladys, which provides insights into his real personality.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50681448595729,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50681448956177,"sku":"GOR003585841","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/029778210X.jpg?v=1750738199"},{"product_id":"the-dud-avocado-penguin-books-1437-rare-book-elaine-dundy-1729511524mep","title":"The Dud Avocado (Penguin Books; 1437)","description":"1961. Reprinted. 255 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxin","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51239702593809,"sku":"1729511524MEP","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1729511524MEP_1.jpg?v=1741078053"},{"product_id":"the-dud-avocado-rare-book-elaine-dundy-1733753605abs","title":"The Dud Avocado","description":"1958. Third Impression. 272 pages. Dust jacket over paper covered boards. Clean pages with mild tanning throughout, heavy to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owne","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51241125642513,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51241127936273,"sku":"1733753605ABS","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1733753605ABS_1.jpg?v=1741081333"},{"product_id":"life-itself-book-elaine-dundy-9781844085989","title":"Life Itself!","description":"Author of the celebrated and hilarious THE DUD AVOCADO, the classic novel about a young American ingenue in Paris, Elaine Dundy was born in New York in the 1930s. Her first years were spent in an apartment on Park Avenue until the stock market crash wiped out most of the family's money. She went to university in the south where, among other studies, she worked hard at losing her virginity. Deciding the stage was her true home, Elaine Dundy headed first to Paris and then to London, where she met and married the famous theatre critic Kenneth Tynan. Though their union was intoxicating, it was far from easy and the successful publication in 1958 of her novel finished off the marriage. But it was the opening of a new world of writers for Elaine Dundy, including friendships with Tennessee Williams, Hemingway and Gore Vidal. Extremely funny and extraordinarily honest this wonderfully remembered story of growing up in America  is as much a tonic as life itself.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51712867696913,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51712867762449,"sku":"GOR006141833","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52345210863889,"sku":"NLS9781844085989","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1844085988.jpg?v=1751378654"},{"product_id":"injured-party-book-elaine-dundy-9780718112080","title":"Injured Party","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52627970556177,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52627970621713,"sku":"GOR001879470","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780718112080.jpg?v=1761714404"},{"product_id":"my-place-book-elaine-dundy-9781965751220","title":"My Place","description":"Elaine Dundy's follow-up to the immensely successful novel Dud Avocado was a now-little-known play, My Place, first performed in 1962. Set in the dressing room of an actress who doesn't have a place of her own to live, My Place, according to journalist Bernard Levin, is \"as cynical, hip, beat, amoral and generally with-it as could be.\" Author Clancy Sigal wrote, \"The best and most lasting thing about Miss Dundy's play is her depiction of a new race of working-class, provincial, free-living and insecure actors, without traditions or education and needing and resisting both. These are tough, poignant young people, wanting to be themselves but desperately afraid of being phonied up if anyone official, or anything systematic, touches them. In this sense, they are symptomatic of that whole social class of 'new wave' young English people. We envy their groping and their embattled pride.\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52778873618705,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52778873815313,"sku":"NIN9781965751220","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781965751220.jpg?v=1763934316"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/fr-fr\/collections\/auteur-livres-de-elaine-dundy.oembed?page=3","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}