Word: vizinczey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hungarian-born Stephen Vizinczey, 52, already has one worldwide best seller to his credit. In Praise of Older Women (1965), a fictionalized erotic memoir of an apparently insatiable young man, was rejected by so many publishers that Vizinczey quit his broadcasting job in Toronto and paid to have the book printed. It went on to sell some 3 million copies in eight languages. His second novel, which arrives in the U.S. trailing clouds of praise from England, Germany, Canada and Australia, may do just as well. True, the sex this time around is considerably muted. But moods have changed over...
...Vizinczey does not bother to weave much suspense about this outcome; the question is not whether Mark will find the treasure but how. He seems in danger of being distracted by Marianne Hardwick, a beautiful woman who lives on the island with her two young sons while her husband runs his huge chemical company and philanders back home in Chicago. Their love affair is passionate and brief; she sends him packing when he will not abandon risky underwater explorations and his dream of wealth. But spies employed by Marianne's husband have caught her and Mark on film in compromising...
From this point on, Vizinczey's entertaining display of granted wishes takes a peculiar turn. He writes: "Perhaps nothing about Mark Niven's life is of such general significance as the way he lost his fortune." The ominous shadow of a moral descends over the proceedings. Mark must contend with a confiscatory Bahamian government, which demands half of his take before he even recovers it. Then other sharks start circling: an unscrupulous Manhattan art dealer named John Vallantine, who decides to relieve Mark of his remaining $150 million, and corrupt lawyers in the U.S. who gather to pick...