In Praise of Older Women: The Amorous Recollections of A. V (Phoenix Fiction)

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"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 reporters 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 melodioushas 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 tale wins the reader."Polly Devlin Vogue