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Description for Fear of Flying
Paperback. Compulsive daydreamer Isadora Wing has come to a crossroads. Five years of marriage have made her itchy - itchy for men, and itchy for solitude. Ditching her second husband during a work conference in Vienna she decides to cut and run, criss-crossing her way across Europe in search of the perfect no-strings-attached tryst. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250. A well-read copy in good condition.
The modern classic that changed the way we thought about sex
‘Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same’ - Anonymous (a woman)
Compulsive daydreamer Isadora Wing has come to a crossroads. Five years of marriage have made her itchy – itchy for men, and itchy for solitude.
Ditching her second husband during a work conference in Vienna she decides to cut and run, criss-crossing her way across Europe in search of the perfect no-strings-attached tryst – and she won’t let a little thing like a fear of flying get in her way.
Witty, fearless and exuberant, Fear of Flying remains as sensational today as when it was first published.
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780749396053
SKU
KRF0003690
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Erica Jong
Erica Jong is a poet, novelist and essayist whose works have been influential all over the world. Her first novel Fear of Flying has sold over 27 million copies from the US and Europe to China. Fear of Flying has just celebrated its 40th Anniversary with new editions in many languages. She is the author of seven widely honoured volumes of poetry, eight novels and seven non-fiction books. Her forthcoming novel is Fear of Dying, due for release in September 2015. Among other awards she has been honoured with the Fernanda Pivano Award for Literature in Italy, the Sigmund Freud award in Italy, the United Nations Award for Excellence in Literature and Poetry Magazine’s Bess Hokin Prize. www.ericajong.com
Reviews for Fear of Flying
This succès de scandale from 1973 remains funny, clever and perceptive.
John Bungey
The Times
Unbridled classic.
Daily Telegraph
An intelligent, expressive examination of a woman’s mind, and of her gradual understanding of what feminism means… Erica Jong was a pioneer…she was, and still is, honest, brazen, bold and funny… If you want an insight into what life was really like for clever, sexy women 40 or 50 years ago, and how far we’ve come, you could do a lot worse than pick up Fear of Flying.
ASOS
Witty, brazen and liberating
Independent
Uninhibited, erotic, delicious
John Updike Furiously good
Guardian
Extraordinary… At once wildly funny and very wise
Los Angeles Times
A picaresque, funny, touching adventure
New York Review of Books
Great humour... energetic, bawdy
New York Times
Brilliantly articulate-the wit is dazzling
Monica Dickens
John Bungey
The Times
Unbridled classic.
Daily Telegraph
An intelligent, expressive examination of a woman’s mind, and of her gradual understanding of what feminism means… Erica Jong was a pioneer…she was, and still is, honest, brazen, bold and funny… If you want an insight into what life was really like for clever, sexy women 40 or 50 years ago, and how far we’ve come, you could do a lot worse than pick up Fear of Flying.
ASOS
Witty, brazen and liberating
Independent
Uninhibited, erotic, delicious
John Updike Furiously good
Guardian
Extraordinary… At once wildly funny and very wise
Los Angeles Times
A picaresque, funny, touching adventure
New York Review of Books
Great humour... energetic, bawdy
New York Times
Brilliantly articulate-the wit is dazzling
Monica Dickens