In Praise of Older Women: the amorous recollections of Andras Vajda by Stephen Vizinczey

Few novels have ever enjoyed such extraordinary success as Stephen Vizinczey’s first novel, In Praise of Older Women.

Subtitled “the amorous recollections of András Vajda,” this wildly funny, affectionate, and penetrating novel is “dedicated to older women and is addressed to young men.” Recalling with irony and insight his youthful love affairs with girls his own age and with mature women—both in Europe and in America—Vajda (now a middle-aged thirty) writes a book of memory and advice: that a woman of a certain age—say thirty-five—can be a more graceful, more intelligent, a better lover, and a more delightful companion in sex, than all the nubile young girls and perpetual teenagers idolized in advertising, films, and fiction.