Erica Jong

Conscious Aging

Erica Jong; Thomas Moore; Sam Keen; Deepak Chopra; Stephen Levine; Elizabeth Kubler Ross

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Seducing the Demon: Writing For My Life

Erica Jong

The author of Fear of Flying shares the story of her career as a poet, novelist, and feminist provocateur, offering insight into her experiences with both fame and notoriety while discussing such topics as the motivations behind her writings, the literary masters who inspired her work, and her struggles with alcohol.

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Sappho's Leap

Erica Jong

"Sappho's Leap delights."—USA Today
Sappho's Leap is a journey back 2,600 years to inhabit the mind of the greatest love poet the world has ever known. At the age of fourteen, Sappho is seduced by the beautiful poet Alcaeus, plots with him to overthrow the dictator of their island, and is caught and married off to a repellent older man in hopes that matrimony will keep her out of trouble. Instead, it starts her off on a series of amorous adventures with both men and women, taking her from Delphi to Egypt, and even to the Land of the Amazons and the shadowy realm of Hades.
Erica Jong—always our keenest-eyed chronicler of the wonders and vagaries of sex and love—has found the perfect subject for a witty and sensuous tale of a passionate woman ahead of her time. A generation of readers who have been moved to laughter and recognition by Jong's heroines will be enchanted anew by her re-creation of the immortal poet.

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Other editions: 2003, Hardcover - 2003, 2003

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Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones

Erica Jong

Discovered on the doorstep of a country estate in Wiltshire, England, the infant Fanny is raised to womanhood by her adoptive parents, Lord and Lady Bellars. Fanny wants to become the epic poet of the age, but her plans are dashed when she is ravished by her libertine stepfather. Fleeing to London, Fanny falls in with idealistic witches and highwaymen who teach her of worlds she never knew existed. After toiling in a London brothel that caters to literati, Fanny embarks on a series of adventures that teach her what she must know to live and prosper as a woman. Soon to be a major Broadway musical. Reading group guide included.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1991, Hardcover - 1980

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Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice

Erica Jong

When Hollywood star Jessica Pruitt arrives in Venice to be a judge in a film festival, her explorations of the city somehow send her into another time. As a Venetian Jewess of the 16th-century, she is involved in a passionate love triangle with Shakespeare and discovers a love that can survive only in the timeless world of poetry.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2003

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Fear of Flying

Erica Jong

Now with a new introduction by the author, one of the most influential books ever on women's sexuality is ready to expose a new generation to a joyous, exhilarating romp through the mind of one about-to-become-liberated woman--and to an acceptance and enjoyment of their own innermost sexual fantasies.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2003, Softcover - 1995, 1990, Softcover - 1988

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Conversations With Erica Jong

Erica Jong

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The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller

Erica Jong

The book begins with a question: Why Henry Miller? "Miller remains among the most misunderstood of writers - seen either as a pornographer or a guru, a sexual enslaver or a sexual liberator, a prophet or a pervert. All the questions his life and oeuvre raise about the role of the writer in society, the impact of books on sexual politics, the impact of sexual politics on books, the threat of censorship to free speech and written expression are, unfortunately, as fresh today as they ever were". Part biography, part memoir, part critical study, part exploration of sexual politics in our time, The Devil at Large is an event: a book that promises to rescue Miller from the facile charges of misogyny, anti-Semitism, and titillation that have been lobbed at him over the years, and brilliantly captures the exuberance, audacity, and energy that defined his life and art. More than that, it is a reunion between a young writer and her mentor. In 1974, while Fear of Flying was still a relatively obscure first novel, Erica Jong received an enthusiastic fan letter from Henry Miller, then an old man of eighty-three. Miller credited himself with "discovering" Jong, and his faithful correspondence guided her through a year of enormous change. The two writers - chastised and celebrated for their lusty prose, accused of conflating autobiography with fiction in their respective generations - found they were kindred spirits, and began a friendship that would last until Miller's death in 1980. "Make it all up!" was Miller's appeal to Jong to become his biographer. But in reexamining Miller, Jong has not had to fictionalize. She has imparted a deeper understanding of a life whose dramatic particulars have longsince been mythologized, dramatized, and cannibalized by those in search of a lusty life story. Jong puts the works, the letters, the loves through a prism that clarifies the creative impulse, making this slim book a quintessential chronicle of a writer's life and a mirror of our own times. "Always the flesh and the vision together", Anais Nin said of Miller. The Devil at Large asks its readers to look anew at these elements and come to a new appreciation of a twentieth-century visionary and prophet.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2001, Hardcover - 1993

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Miedo a Los Cincuenta

Erica Jong

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Ecstasy: The Quest Love Trilogy

Erica Jong; John Gray; Thomas Moore; Marianne Williamson; James Hillman; Harville Hendrix; Riane Eisler; Naomi Wolf; Margo Anand; Barbara De Angelis

Leading experts and bestselling authors discuss the search for meaning, connection, and the "real" moments in life. They explain the concept of looking at sexuality in terms of how we deal with energy, and our eternal search for ecstasy and the ability to experience it on many levels. Features John Gray, Harville Hendrix, Barbara De Angelis, Margo Anand, Thomas Moore, Riane Eisler, James Hillman, Erica Jong, Marianne Williamson, and Naomi Wolf.

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Manolito Gafotas En LA Radio

Erica Jong

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What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power

Erica Jong

The author of the bestselling "Fear of Fifty" brings together her very best meditations on subjects ranging from Hillary Rodham Clinton to writing for love, and adds to them new writings on men, women, sex, and the secret of what women really want.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1998

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Inventing Memory

Erica Jong

Narrated by Sarah, who in the year 2005 finds herself drawn into the tumultuous lives of her unconventional ancestors, Inventing Memory ýchronicles the lives of Sara's forebears. She calls to memory her great-grandmother Sarah, propelled by a Russian pogrom to America in 1906; her grandmother Salome, who cavorted with Henry Miller in prewar Paris; and finally her mother, Sally, a famous folk singer and emblem of the '60s. Through the paradoxical nature of memory Sarah comes to understand and impart her own story. Inventing Memory ý is the story of all women on the verge of the 21st century and recalls the saga of the 20th-century woman and her heroic struggle to be free. It is Erica Jong's most ambitious, complex and satisfying novel yet.Visit Ms. Jong's website at http://www.ericajong.com

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1997, 1997

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Cancion Triste De Cualquier Mujer

Erica Jong

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Fruits & Vegetables: Poems

Erica Jong

Erica Jong, the bestselling author of FEAR OF FLYING and more recently FEAR OF FIFTY, began her literary life as a poet. Here is the 25th anniversary edition of Jong's debut collection, a surrealistic, funny, gastronomic, erotic, serious book about being human and female and American.

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Other editions: 1971

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Fear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir

Erica Jong

A publishing event, a real-life novel, "Fear of Fifty" is the true story of the woman who twenty years ago showed her generation how to soar in "Fear of Flying" and now looks back--and ahead--to assess the costs, the rewards, and the meaning of the journey. Opening on her fiftieth birthday, Erica Jong's midlife memoir reads like fast-paced fiction as it flashes back and forth in time to tell at last the truths at the heart of her novels. Poet, novelist, essayist, Jong has forged one of the most visible, and volatile, careers in American letters, and as a charter member of what she calls the "whiplash generation," she has had a front seat on the roller coaster American women have been riding for the past decades. Raised to be Doris Day, growing up wanting to be Gloria Steinem, now rearing daughters in the age of Princess Di and Madonna, today's women have had their expectations raised and dashed and raised and dashed again, as they've watched themselves go in and out of style like hemlines. Now, as she and her contemporaries look for answers to the second half of their lives, Jong offers powerful, provocative insights into sex, marriage, and aging; feminism--past, present, and future; the writing life; motherhood and family; identity and love, loyalty and loss, drawn through the brilliant prism of her own experience. In chapters such as "Fear of Fifty," "The Mad Lesbian in the Attic," "How I Got to Be the Second Sex," "How I Got to Be Jewish," "Fear of Fame," "Seducing the Muse," "Dona Juana Gets Smart," "Becoming Venetian," and "How to Get Married," Erica Jong takes readers on an impassioned, outrageous, irreverent tour de force through the sea changes that have defined a generation. From technical virginity to the sexual revolution to the AIDS pandemic; from "The Feminine Mystique" to "political correctness"; from monogamy to open marriage and back again; from stay-at-home moms to moms who have won the right to be eternally exhausted; from sexual secrecy to sexual openness--Jong proves yet again her unique ability to tap into the inner lives of women and the issues that matter most to them. "Fear of Fifty" is an intoxicating, riveting read, free-wheeling and fun, warm, tough, and full of wisdom. Sure to be embraced by women everywhere, it is destined, like its classic predecessor "Fear of Flying", to become required reading for a generation on the threshold of a new revolution. "'Fear of Fifty' is a funny, touching, unflinchingly honest cri de coeur about the joy and pain of being a fully sentient woman in the last half of the twentieth century. Elegant and eloquent, this moving midlife meditation chronicles the daunting feat of juggling all at once the roles of wife, mother, and lover; daughter, sister, and friend; writer, feminist, and Jew. Many women who came of age in the sixties and seventies will recognize Jong's struggles, contradctions, and hard-won conclusions as their own." -- Lisa Alther, author of "Kinflicks"

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Other editions: Softcover - 1995, Hardcover - 1994, Hardcover - 1994, 1994

Megan's Two Houses

Erica Jong

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1996, Hardcover - 1996

How to Save Your Own Life

Erica Jong

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1977

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Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected

Erica Jong

An essential collection of poetry--the best of her creative body of work by the internationally celebrated and bestselling author of Fear of Flyingand Any Woman's Blues.Visit Ms. Jong's website at http://www.ericajong.com

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Other editions: 1992, Hardcover - 1991

Any Woman's Blues: A Novel of Obsession

Erica Jong

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Other editions: Softcover - 1991, 1990, Hardcover - 1990

Serenissima

Erica Jong

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Other editions: Softcover - 1988, 1987, Hardcover - 1987

Paracaidas Y Besos/Parachutes and Kisses

Erica Jong

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Miedo a Volar/Fear of Flying

Erica Jong

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Parachutes and Kisses

Erica Jong

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1984

Megan's Book of Divorce: A Kid's Book for Adults

Erica Jong

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