In Praise of Older Women: The Amorous Recollections of Andras Vajda - Softcover

Vizinczey, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871130777 ISBN 13: 9780871130778

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1986

Synopsis

The narrator, a European, looks back on his childhood during World War II, and his sexual adventures as a young man

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Review:

A funny novel about sex, or rather (which is rarer) a novel which is funny as well as touching about sex ... elegant, exact and melodious (Isabel Quigly Sunday Telegraph)

The delicious adventures of a young Casanova who appreciates maturity while acquiring it himself. In turn naive, sophisticated, arrogant, disarming, the narrator woos his women and his tale wins the reader (Polly Devlin Vogue)

Spectacular! It's always a risky business, re-reading a book which was important to you in your adolescence. But re-reading this one, I was struck by a great deal that I missed before ... a much richer book than I remembered. Immensely pleasurable. (A. A. Gill (2010))

A skinny book with a funny name, a title I didn't know, by an author I'd never heard of, which turns out to be just wonderful (John Self (2010) theasylum.wordpress.com)

In Praise of Older Women is as singular as a lemon tree or a giraffe or a ripe pear.In a voice free of vanity and subterfuge, the writer tells a story of the worst of times, and the ever-shifting truths about girls and youths, men and women and their sexual connections--and mis-connections--in a way that is always luminous and enlightening. (Paula Fox)

From the Publisher:

The latest 1999 printing is the forty-fourth printing of the English-language edition; it is the fourth printing of the University of Chicago Press edition. Translations of the novel went through over a hundred printings.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0871130777
• ISBN 13: 9780871130778
• Binding: Paperback