Fear of Flying - Hardcover

Jong, Erica

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0030107318 ISBN 13: 9780030107313

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973

Synopsis

Records the erotic fantasies and outrageous adventures of Isadora Wing who travels constantly in spite of her phobia of flight

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: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0030107318
• ISBN 13: 9780030107313
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 340