It took long enough and then some, but Elaine Dundy finally made it onto the obituary page of the New York Times last Friday. Kindly note the last paragraph:
The Dud Avocado, reissued last year by The New York Review of Books, remains Ms. Dundy’s most popular book, flawed but vital, like its heroine. “The plot is helter-skelter, and the end trails off into vapor,” the critic Terry Teachout wrote, “but the narrator’s utterly feminine voice redeems all.”
Sure enough.