Inventing MemoryJong, Erica
9780393057614
Sappho's Leap
Erica Jong
ISBN 10: 0393057615 / 0-393-05761-5
ISBN 13: 9780393057614
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 13: 9780393057614
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
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Fearless, exuberant, and passionate, Sappho is Erica Jong's most unforgettable heroine.
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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"Much of this is highly entertaining, and the sexuberantly anachronistic one-liners are sometimes wonderful..., sometimes effulgently absurd....Nevertheless: one of Jong's most enjoyable books."
Kirkus, 03/01/2003
Review:"The author of the sexual-revolution classic FEAR OF FLYING has a reputation to uphold, and she rises to the occasion by imagining Sappho as an updated compilation of every Jongian heroine to date....Erica Jong's celebrity will never rest on her literary talents....But her effort to bring to life an ancient writer engrossed in politics, family and the creation of poetry is a relief from the relentlessly everyday sincerity of much current 'women-oriented' writing. If only she had confronted the real historical mystery of how Sappho made her way in the violent, male-dominated world of ancient Greece--such a novel would have done justice to the remarkable woman that Sappho obviously was."
Joy Connolly, New York Times Book Review, 05/18/2003
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