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Elaine Dundy, a New Yorker born in the 1930s, is the author of<i> The Dud Avocado,</i> 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 theater critic Kenneth Tynan. Her literary and theatrical circle—which included Peter Finch, 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.
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Life Itself!, Elaine Dundy
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- Released
- 2001
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- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- Life Itself!
- Subtitle
- An Autobiography
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Elaine Dundy
- Publisher
- Virago Press
- Released
- 2001
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 388
- ISBN10
- 1860495133
- ISBN13
- 9781860495137
- Series
- Description
- Elaine Dundy, a New Yorker born in the 1930s, is the author of<i> The Dud Avocado,</i> 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 theater critic Kenneth Tynan. Her literary and theatrical circle—which included Peter Finch, 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.