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FEAR OF FLYING : 40th Anniversary Edition : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Erica Jong; (Theresa Rebeck, Foreword)
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- New/None as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0143107356
- ISBN 13
- 9780143107354
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About This Item
New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2013. First Edition, First Printing . Paperback. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. 40th Anniversay Edition, 1st Printing. Fear of Flying, first published 1973, is the first novel from New Yorker Erica Jong (1942) - ); novelist, satirist & poet, who, while a student at Barnard College, edited the Barnard Literary Magazine and created poetry programs for the Columbia Univ campus radio station, WKC. Controversial novel noted for its portrayal of female sexuality in the development of second-wave feminism. Narrated in the first-person by Isadore Wing. Chronicle of young poet. Isadora's soul-searching, sensuality-seeking, during a business trip with her 2nd husband to a psychoanalysts' conference in Vienna. A frearless, frank, explicit, chatty account of her quest for no-strings, satisfying sex. Comparisons to The Catcher in the Rye & Portnoy's Complaint in literary history of men-woman issues? Certainly pathbreaking achievement for female self-expression. 300 pgs. An American cultural classic in 19 chapters w/a Foreword from Theresa Rebeck, playwright & novelist.
Synopsis
Erica Jong is the author of nineteen books of poetry, fiction, and memoir, including Fear of Flying , which has more than 18 million copies in print worldwide. Her most recent essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review , and she is a frequent guest on television talk shows. Currently working on a novel featuring Isadora Wing—the heroine of Fear of Flying —as a woman of a certain age, Erica and her lawyer husband live in New York City and Connecticut. Her daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, is also an author. Erica Jong left a Ph.D. program at Columbia to write her ground-breaking novel Fear of Flying , published in 1973. Jong is the author of numerous award-winning books of poetry and novels including Fanny , How to Save Your Own Life , Parachutes and Kisses , Any Woman’s Blues , and the forthcoming Sappho’s Leap . She is also the author of the memoir Fear of Fifty . She lives in New York City and Connecticut.
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- Title
- FEAR OF FLYING : 40th Anniversary Edition : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- Author
- Erica Jong; (Theresa Rebeck, Foreword)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0143107356
- ISBN 13
- 9780143107354
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- Fiction/Literature/Novel/Feminism/Sexuality
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