Fear of Flying

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The modern classic that changed the way we thought about sex The modern classic that changed the way we thought about sex 'Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same' - Anonymous (a woman) Compulsive daydreamer Isadora Wing has come to a crossroads. Five years of marriage have made her itchy - itchy for men, and itchy for solitude. Ditching her second husband during a work conference in Vienna she decides to cut and run, criss-crossing her way across Europe in search of the perfect no-strings-attached tryst - and she won't let a little thing like a fear of flying get in her way. Witty, fearless and exuberant, Fear of Flying remains as sensational today as when it was first published.

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This succs de scandale from 1973 remains funny, clever and perceptive. -- John Bungey * The Times *
Unbridled classic. * Daily Telegraph *
An intelligent, expressive examination of a womans mind, and of her gradual understanding of what feminism means Erica Jong was a pioneershe was, and still is, honest, brazen, bold and funny If you want an insight into what life was really like for clever, sexy women 40 or 50 years ago, and how far weve come, you could do a lot worse than pick up Fear of Flying. * ASOS *
Witty, brazen and liberating * Independent *
Uninhibited, erotic, delicious -- John Updike

Author Bio

Erica Jong is a poet, novelist and essayist whose works have been influential all over the world. Her first novel Fear of Flying has sold over 27 million copies from the US and Europe to China. Fear of Flying has just celebrated its 40th Anniversary with new editions in many languages. She is the author of seven widely honoured volumes of poetry, eight novels and seven non-fiction books. Her forthcoming novel is Fear of Dying, due for release in September 2015. Among other awards she has been honoured with the Fernanda Pivano Award for Literature in Italy, the Sigmund Freud award in Italy, the United Nations Award for Excellence in Literature and Poetry Magazine's Bess Hokin Prize. www.ericajong.com