Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice - Softcover

Jong, Erica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061008303 ISBN 13: 9780061008306

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1995

Synopsis

Jessica Pruitt is one of Hollywood's most alluring and admired actresses, but her love life is a shambles, until, in Venice filming a movie of The Merchant of Venice, she is transported back in time to meet her soulmate, a young Will Shakespeare. Reprint.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

The modern classic that changed the way we thought about sex: Isadora Wing just wants to be free to find the perfect, guiltless, zipless sexual encounter, and pursues this ideal across two continents.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0061008303
• ISBN 13: 9780061008306
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250