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The Dud Avocado
by Elaine Dundy
March 26, 2024 - March 27, 2024 (read, fiction)

Dundy, E. (1958). The Dud Avocado. NYRB Classics.


NYRB Classics, 1958. 260 pages. Paperback. 9781590172322

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the chicken of the century
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a librarian is just not that easy to become
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NOW HERE’S THE heavy irony. So I went back to New…
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the Dreaded Librarian Dream
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which is the stove and how do you light it
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I tried to remember one minute that whole week en…
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my past was receding a little too rapidly
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After he left I started to cry. Then I fell aslee…

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