"A funny novel about sex, or rather (which is rarer) a novel which is funny as well as touching about sex... elegant, exact and melodious - has style, presence and individuality."
A funny novel about sex, or rather (which is rarer) a novel which is funny as well as touching about sex … elegant, exact and melodious (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 )
Spectacular! It’s always a risky business, re-reading a book which was important to you in your adolescence. But re-reading this one, I was struck by a great deal that I missed before … a much richer book than I remembered. Immensely pleasurable. (A. A. Gill (2010) )
A skinny book with a funny name, a title I didn’t know, by an author I’d never heard of, which turns out to be just wonderful (John Self (2010) theasylum.wordpress.com )
In Praise of Older Women is as singular as a lemon tree or a giraffe or a ripe pear.In a voice free of vanity and subterfuge, the writer tells a story of the worst of times, and the ever-shifting truths about girls and youths, men and women and their sexual connections--and mis-connections--in a way that is always luminous and enlightening. (Paula Fox )
Rok vydania:
2010ISBN:
0141192062Rozmer:
127×195 mmPočet strán:
256Väzba:
brožovanáJazyk: angličtina
