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In Praise of Older Women:

The Amorous Recollections of A. V
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University of Chicago Press, Oct 15, 1990 - Fiction - 181 pages
"A cool, comic survey of the sexual education of a young Hungarian, from his first encounter, as a twelve-year-old refugee with the American forces, to his unsatisfactory liaison with a reporter's wife in Canada at the belated end of his youth, when he was twenty-three . . . elegantly erotic, with masses of that indefinable quality, style . . . this has the real stuff of immortality."--B. A. Young, "Punch "A pleasure. Vizinczey writes of women beautifully, with sympathy, tact and delight, and he writes about sex with more lucidity and grace than most writers ever acquire."--Larry McMurtry, "Houston Post "Like James Joyce, who was as far from being a writer of erotica as Dostoevsky, Vizinczey has a refreshing message to deliver: Life is not about sex, sex is about life."--John Podhoretz, "Washington Times "The gracefully written story of a young man growing up among older women . . . although some passages may well arouse the reader, this novel brims with what the courts have termed"redeeming literary merit."--Clarence Petersen, "Chicago Tribune ""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--has style, presence and individuality."--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
  

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Review: In Praise of Older Women: The Amorous Recollections of András Vajda

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I really liked this book, it was very interresting, and I like that when it came to the sex it wasn't just about the sex, but about the emoitional part, and the level of attraction, and the psychology ...

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I thought this book was fantastic. ... Sex in its glorious detail. From his initial trepidation of sex, during his adolescence, to the various sexual encounters with older women the book describes in ... Read full review

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Contents

To Young Men Without Lovers
1
On Faith and Friendliness
4
On War and Prostitution
11
On Pride and Being Thirteen
22
On Young Girls
30
On Courage and Seeking Advice
41
On Becoming a Lover
51
On Being Promiscuous and Lonely
58
On Taking it Easy
84
On Virgins
97
On the Deadly Sin of Sloth
109
On Mothers of Little Children
113
On Anxiety and Rebellion
128
On Happiness with a Frigid Woman
143
On Grown Women as Teenage Girls
161
On More than Enough
174

On Being Vain and Hopelessly in Love
63
On Don Juans Secret
73

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