Penguin is to republish In Praise of Older Women by Hungarian emigré Stephen Vizinczey - a 1960s novel that’s been out-of-print for several decades reports the Bookseller.
The début novel—a coming-of-age tale about a young man’s sexual education following his departure from Hungary in 1956—was originally self-published in 1965 when the author was a writer and producer working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It went on to become the first and only self-published novel to top the bestseller lists in Canadian literary history.
The book was subsequently published in the US and in the UK, where Pan brought out a paperback in 1968. Around 600,000 copies were sold, with rave reviews coming from the likes of Margaret Drabble and Michael Frayn.
