In "The Dud Avocado," Elaine Dundy revealed the life of a young expatriate in Paris in all its hilarious and heartbreaking drama. With "The Old Man and Me," she tackles the American girl in London, a bit older, but certainly no wiser. Honey Flood (if that's her real name) is determined to make the Soho scene, and she'll know she's arrived when she snags its greatest prize, the literary star C. D. McKee. Set in an early sixties London that is just beginning to swing, "The Old Man and Me "is populated by hipsters, pill-poppers, literary upstarts, would-be bohemians, and titled divorcees matching wits in smoky nightclubs and Mayfair flats. But by the time Honey gets what she thinks she's after, she may find that the world she was hell-bent on conquering has gotten the better of her. Elaine Dundy knows her characters inside and out and renders them with perfect pitch to create a story as funny as it is poignant.
