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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0451209435
ISBN-13: 9780451209436
Nov 2003
Publisher: New Amer Library
480 pages
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Language: English |
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Synopsis
Isadora Wing, a poet, accompanies her psychiatrist husband Bennett to a conference in Vienna. She suddenly leaves him for a protracted affair with Adrian Goodlove, a British psychologist. When first published in 1973, Erica Jong's highly autobiographical novel became a bestseller noted for its themes of sex, feminism, and consciousness-raising.
| Size | | Length: | 480 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 14.4 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna, and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh. God knows it was a tribute either to the shrinks' ineptitude or my own glorious unanalyzability that I was now, if anything, more scared of flying than when I began my analytic adventures some thirteen years earlier."
Industry Reviews
"It is rare these days to come upon a book written by a woman which is so refreshing, so gay and sad at the same time, and so full of wisdom about the eternal man-woman problem....This book will make literary history....[B]ecause of it women are going to find their own voice and give us great sagas of sex, life, joy and adventure."
New York Times - Henry Miller (01/01/1973)
"FEAR OF FLYING...belongs to and hilariously extends the tradition of CATCHER IN THE RYE and PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT."
New Yorker - John Updike (01/01/1973)
"It was sex, of course, that made FEAR OF FLYING such a hit, and the book...still has the capacity to make a person reading it on the subway feel suddenly self-conscious....FEAR OF FLYING is sloppily written and lousy with clichés. But fastidious good taste is not perhaps absolutely essential in a novel."
New York Times Book Review - Laura Miller (06/01/2003)
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