The Old Man And Me
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Published:4th Aug '05
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
* Review coverage * Featured on the Virago website
A wickedly funny novel about falling in love with an Old Man and the Old World, despite the best intentions.
'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.
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) *
ISBN: 9781844081240
Dimensions: 196mm x 126mm x 20mm
Weight: 186g
256 pages