IN PRAISE OF OLDER WOMEN: The Amorous Recollections of Andras Vajda

by Stephen Vizinczey ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, 1966

Probably the only interesting thing about this book is that VizinczeyVajda wrote it, published it, promoted it, distributed it and that it outflanked The Source at the top of the Canadian best-seller list in two weeks. The book is being presented here with a Daily News type brochure of columns, reviews (author procured-- an inferential word) and interviews of this happy Hungarian (""always the love of soft things"" captions one photograph). He spent almost twenty of his thirty-three years trying to write a ""good book."" (This couldn't have taken more than two days.) His literary efforts must have been concurrent with his pubescence, when he started to bed down older women. This is what the book is about. Older women liked to be gratified in this fashion even though the decollete one on the jacket looks very militant. It is also supposed to be the sales hook of the book-- all those grateful, ungratified older women. Any countdown of the experiences of this youthful Candide and his conquests yclept Maya, Zsuzsa, Bobo, Paola, etc. would be just as tedious as the book. One can only hope that here, where we have been more acclimated to this kind of exposure than our neighbor to the North, it will not have an equal succes de tripes.

Pub Date: March 1, 1966

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Trident

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1966

Categories: FICTION