In Praise of Older Women

Stephen Vizinczey

Original title: In praise of older women

earliest edition we have, 1971 Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986 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. Vizin...

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In praise of older women edition · 1990 · University of Chicago Press · 181 pages
In praise of older women edition · 1986 · Atlantic Monthly Press · 181 pages
In Praise of Older Women hardcover · 1985 · Hamish Hamilton Ltd · 182 pages · 9780241113783
In praise of older women edition · 1978 · Totem Books · 202 pages
In Praise of Older Women paperback · 1971 · Ballantine Books · 9780345219565

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