{"product_id":"the-old-man-and-me-isbn-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\u003eIn \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.\u003cp\u003e\"In this, in a way a sequel to her classic \u003ci\u003eThe Dud Avocado\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. She's  angry, ambitious, vixenish, Holly Golightly crossed with Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim...I'm  not sure who's claiming to have invented chick lit these days; but maybe Dundy should  raise an arm, except that she's so murderously fierce.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Here  was no one else quite like her. She introduced a whole style, the freed American  girl landing on old Europe, starting in Paris and moving on to London. She collected  a lot of very interesting friends...She had a lot of reality that was far more interesting  than fiction.” –Gore Vidal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough it all, Miss Dundy’s prose glitters like confetti against the gray English sky.\u003cbr\u003e— \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs full of wry charm as \u003ci\u003eThe Dud Avocado\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e— Doris Lessing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It’s a terrific job—fierce, gamey, vixenish . . . as  if it was bled not written. . . . Definitely demonic, exquisitely carved, deadly  murderous comedy.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Dawn Powell, The Washington Post \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The surprises here are delicious...Brilliant,  weirdly original, hilarious.” –Irwin Shaw\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This story of an Anglo-American liaison  dangereuse is both truly horrible and horribly funny.” –Christopher Isherwod\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As  full of wry charm as \u003ci\u003eThe Dud Avocado\u003c\/i\u003e.” –Doris Lessing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Old Man and Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a witty  black comedy of manners as seen through the eyes of Dundy’s finest creation, a hipster  Daisy Miller, who shows us how each girl kills the thing she love-hates, or very  nearly. A splendid, destructive work.” —Gore Vidal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Old Man and Me\u003c\/i\u003e again finds  an American woman, Honey Flood, in Europe–this time London–amid a tangle of relationships  which have brought about her murderous intent. 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.” –\u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eElaine Dundy\u003c\/b\u003e (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, \u003ci\u003eThe Dud Avocado\u003c\/i\u003e (1958), \u003ci\u003eThe Old Man and Me\u003c\/i\u003e (1964), and \u003ci\u003eThe Injured Party\u003c\/i\u003e (1974); a play, \u003ci\u003eMy Place\u003c\/i\u003e (produced in 1962); biographies of Elvis Presley and the actor Peter Finch; a study of Ferriday, Louisiana; and a memoir, \u003ci\u003eLife Itself!\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302505631973,"sku":"NP9781590173176","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590173176.jpg?v=1767740784","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-old-man-and-me-isbn-9781590173176","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}