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I'm currently working on a novel, and i need resources to write the romance. The problem is, the romance is supposed to have ~20 years age gap, and i have no idea how to believably portray it. Any book recommendations that also feature this type of relationship in a believable way, so i can get a good idea how those relationships work?

>> No.12022144

>>12022132

I had an affair with ex-gfs mom ama and your book will be fire

>> No.12022145

>>12022132
Lolita

>> No.12022665

lolita

>> No.12023292

Umberto Eco's Granita

>> No.12024774

l o l i t a

>> No.12024790

>>12022145
>>12022665
>>12024774
I think he meant woman in her 20's, man in his 40's-50's; man in his 20's, woman in her 40's or 50's, pedos

>> No.12024796

>>12022132
Lolita

>>12022145
>>12022665
>>12024774
Good advice

>> No.12024800

>>12022132
Haven't read the replies but I'm going to throw you a potentially controversial curveball here and suggest Lolita

>> No.12024802

I once dated a man who was 43 when I was 15, AMA.

>> No.12025188

Lolita

>> No.12025920

>>12024802
was he a priest, lad? did he fiddle with your privities? did you tell anyone?

>> No.12025944

family happiness by leo tolstoy

>> No.12025946

>>12022132
Jane Eyre age gap

>> No.12025958

>>12022132
>drawing inspiration from a work of fiction

Cool facsimile of a facsimile will be very authentic.

My relationship is 33m/63m and the relationship works just like any other, but we're both fairly discrete about it. Probably best not to write about things you don't understand.

>> No.12025996

>>12025958
>Probably best not to write about things you don't understand.
there'd be fuck all books, fiction or non-fiction if anyone listened to you.
>that's not a bad thing, mind.

>> No.12026031

>>12025996
I didn't say you have to write about what you've experienced. I'm saying that 3rd hand information is probably not going to be authentic and you shouldn't waste your effort unless you really, properly understand a topic.

>durr that's dum tho
Yeah okay champ.

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12026034

Crystal Grader at free-ebooks.net.

>> No.12026044

>>12026034
I wrote this. At the risk of being torn to pieces by you surly beasts, a.m.a.

>> No.12026046

>>12026044
Gimme the tl;dr

>> No.12026060

>>12022132
Effie Briest by Theodor Fontane

>> No.12026780

>>12025958
I never said the books have to be fiction. I'll gladly take any journals etc. as long as they hit the topic

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>>12026780
There's really only one great - and I mean great - novel about this: pic related.

>> No.12027269

Lolito

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pic related

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>>12026044
>A young girl falls in love with an older man--a writer of romance novels that are near impossible to put down.
Did you seriously make the love interest a romance novel author? Anon...

>> No.12029933

>>12028593
Read it first. Then piss on it all you want.

>> No.12030638

>>12022132
Roman Polanski Autobiography

>> No.12030654

>>12026060
This is good.
Also Homo Faber.

>> No.12031980

>>12027354
I just wanna motorboat his asscheeks

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I don't think I've ever come across this book on /lit/. There's a scene where the teenage protagonist locks eyes with his teenage "girlfriend" as she is getting fucked by her actual boyfriend, a man old enough for said protagonist to previously believe him to be her father.
Tesich's two novels are depressingly underrated

>> No.12032069

>>12026034
>>12026044
Are you a woman?

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12032129

>>12031980
the black lads are giving it to him already

>> No.12032189

>>12032060
Isn't that just cuck porn?

>> No.12033463

>>12032069
No I'm not.
And OP if you're still here, I hope your book works out. Again, if I can answer any questions for you, I will.