Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.Pg. Each one an antidote to the one that went before.

37When I look back at my not yet thirty-year-old life, I see all my lovers sitting alternately back to back as if in a game of musical chairs. Irritatingly, on its cover is a 'generous' verdict by John Updike (difficult to understand why it had to be there in the first place): 'most delicious erotic novel a woman ever wrote'. I consider this to be a bold, feminist book.

Chapter 26: 18 / Blood Weddings or Sic Transit.

Chapter 23: 15 / Travels with My Anti-Hero.

Chapter 19: 11 / Existentialism Reconsidered.

Chapter 17: 9 / Pandora's Box or My Two Mothers.

Chapter 16: 8 / Tales from the Vienna Woods.

Chapter 14: 6 / Paroxysms of Passion or the Man Under the Bed.

Chapter 13: 5 / A Report from the Congress of Dreams or Congressing.

Chapter 10: 2 / 'Every Woman Adores a Fascist'.

Chapter 9: 1 / En Route to the Congress of Dreams or the Zipless Fuck.

Chapter 7: For Bette, on Flying, When She Is Older.

Chapter 6: Introduction to the Fortieth-Anniversary Edition.

This ebook features a new introduction by Fay Weldon, as well as an illustrated biography of Erica Jong, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection. fearless and fresh, tender and exact.” -John Updike, The New Yorker Decades later, the novel has lost none of its insight, verve, or jaw-dropping wit. But, as she comes to learn, liberation and happiness are not necessarily the same thing.Ī literary sensation when it was first published, Fear of Flying established Erica Jong as one of her generation’s foremost voices on sex and feminism. The “extraordinary” #1 New York Times–bestselling classic about women and marriage, “at once wildly funny and very wise” (Los Angeles Times).Īfter five years, Isadora Wing has come to a crossroads in her marriage: Should she and her husband stay together or get divorced? Accompanying her husband to an analysts’ conference in Vienna, she ditches him and strikes out on her own, crisscrossing Europe in search of a man who can inspire uninhibited passion.

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