In <i>The Dud Avocado</i>, Elaine Dundy revealed the life of the young expatriate in Paris in all its hilarious and heartbreaking drama. With <i>The Old Man and Me</i>, 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. <br> <br>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.