9780393325614
Sappho's Leap
Erica Jong
ISBN 13: 9780393325614
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Softcover
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"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.
Review:
"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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Book Description: Norton. 1 Paperback(s), 2004. soft. Book Condition: New. This fictional autobiography by the author of Fear of Flying is a journey back 2600 years into the mind of one of the world's greatest love poets. At the age of 14, Sappho is seduced by the beautiful poet Alcaeus and plots with him to overthrow the dictator of their island. She is caught, however, and married off to a repellent older man in hopes that matrimony will keep her out of trouble. Instead, this unhappy union 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. Throughout her travels, Sappho gives birth to and loses a daughter, becomes the most famous singer of the ancient world, and learns to understand the forces that have shaped her life. Complemented by Erica Jong's new translations of Sappho's fragments, as well as nine of Jong's own poems about the epic poet, the book renders her as fearless and heroic yet full of vulnerability."Jong's lean and gorgeous translations of Sappho's poetry are not the smallest of this book's delights. From our fragmentary knowledge of archaic Greece she has imagined a whole world—vivid, sensuous, whimsical, and outrageously dramatic."—Stephen Mitchell 316. Bookseller Inventory # 21040 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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