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"Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez



Is this a novella about a ninety-year-old writer who is going to kick open the door to his 90s by sleeping with a 14-year-old prostitute? Yes. But also no. I'm not going to tell you if it happens or not. But it is as much about sex as Lolita. Perhaps, that is an incomplete or unfinished analogy. Both books do play around with the idea of sex and the transgressive idea of an older man and a nymph. But, really, the book is about love and getting old. It is about coming to grips with an aging body, surrounded by books, an adopted Angoran cat, classical music, his writing, and yes memories of melancholic whores. I liked it enough I'd recommend it to my wife, just not my mother or daughter.