In Praise of Older Women
To celebrate the republication of of the 60s cult classic In Praise of Older Women by Stephen Vizinczey on March 4th (and you can see Julia, TBW founder talking about the older woman/yonger man dynamic on The Culture Show on BBC2 that night) we are holding a competition.
The competition is to see who can write the best 2 lines on why they think older women are fabulous or if you’re a woman, why you think younger men are where it’s at. You can make those 2 lines rhyming or not, witty, poetic, sexy and most important that it springs from your experience.
The winner will be announced at the TBW party on March 20th and the prize will be a brand new copy of the book and a 2 month free upgrade on TBW. Please send your entires to [email protected] with ‘Competition’ in the subject heading. By the way, if you can’t make it to the party we will send the book to you.
Here’s something about the book:
Growing up in war-torn Hungary, the narrator András Vajda, discovers
that the charms of young girls are lost on him, and seeks out the
embraces of older women. From his first disastrous encounter with the
formidable Fräulein Mozart at a US army camp to his passion for Maya, a
married woman, through to his turbulent affair with a reporter’s wife
in Canada, he recounts how his amorous adventures with different
middle-aged women have taught him about sex, love and the ways of the
world.
‘You cannot put it down: witty, moving and it’s all about sex’ Margaret Drabble
‘A masterpiece … dazzling … like all great novels, it shows the truth about life’ Le Monde
‘At the basis of pleasure, of eroticism, Vizinczey places
consciousness. His novel consists of scenes which you can see …
Stupefying: it leaves you breathless with excitement. Here, everything
is living ardour, inexhaustible fervour’ Giorgio Montefoschi, Corriere della Sera.
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