Erica Jong's two rules of writing are "never cut funny" and "keep the pages turning." And Jong delivers in these twenty-six essays, coupling frank and risqu? stories about her own life with provocative pieces on her passion for politics, literature, Italy, and-yes-sex. Originally published in 1998, [...]
"I need a little sugar in my bowl, I need a little hot dog, on my roll I can stand a bit of loving, oh so bad, I feel so funny, I feel so sad". (Bessie Smith). When it comes to sex, what do women want? In this eye-opening and courageous collection, Erica Jong reveals that every woman has her own ans[...]
This ground-breaking novel of self-discovery, freedom, and womanhood records the erotic fantasies and outrageous adventures of Isadora Wing who travels constantly in spite of her phobia of flight, accompanied by a new introduction by the author. Reprint[...]
"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 [...]
This classic novel of self-discovery, freedom, and womanhood records the erotic fantasies and outrageous adventures of Isadora Wing who travels constantly in spite of her phobia of flight, accompanied by a new introduction by the author. Reprint.[...]
Compulsive daydreamer Isadora - just wants to be free and to find the perfect and guiltless sexual encounter. Pursuing this ideal across two continents, she discovers just how hard it can be to make one's dreams come true. She fears flying, yet forces herself to keep travelling. This novel is about [...]
The 40th anniversary reissue of the #1 "New York Times" bestselling novel "Fear of Flying," with a new introduction by "New York Times" bestselling author Jennifer WeinerOriginally published in 1973 by Holt, Reinhardt and Winston, "Fear of Flying," the internationally bestselling story of Isadora Wi[...]
In prose and poetry, the witch is examined as historical reality and as archetype--Halloween hag, full-breasted seductress, natural healer, never without peer, scapegoat, and lingering vestige of a primeval religion--in a study that also features recipes for love potions, formulas for spells, incant[...]
With two marriages and a best-selling novel behind her, Isadora Wing reviews the stages by which her life with Bennett disintegrated and finds genuine love as well as joyous adventure and sex in the never-never land of southern California. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.[...]
Erica Jong's memoir-a national bestseller-was probably the most wildly reviewed book of 2006. Critics called it everything from "brutally funny," "risqu? and wonderfully unrepentant," and "rowdy, self-deprecating, and endearing" to "a car wreck."* Throughout her book tour, Jong was unflappably funny[...]
"Seducing the Demon" has introduced Erica Jong to readers who hadn't been born when "Fear of Flying" was published in 1973. Now one of her finest works of nonfiction -and a "New York Times" bestseller-is back in print with a new afterword.
In "Fear of Fifty," a "New York Times" bestseller when [...]
Any Woman's Blues, first published in 1990, is a tale of addiction and narcissism-the twin obsessions of ourage. World-famous folk singer Leila Sand emerged from the sixties and seventies with addictions to drugs and booze. Leila's latest addiction is to a younger man who leaves her sexually ecstati[...]
At the age of fourteen, Sappho is seduced by the beautiful poet Alcaeus and plots with him to overthrow the dictator of their island. When they are caught, she is 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 amor[...]
Erica Jongs berømte og kontroversielle debutroman fra 1973.
Isidora Wing drømmer om ´det gnidningsløse knald´ - fri for engagement, magtkamp og fortrydelse. Hun falder for en englænder, som hun tror er svaret på hendes erotiske fantasier.
»En desperat, s[...]
I över tre decennier har Erica Jong förbluffat och provocerat. I sina memoarer, skrivna med samma sensualitet, humor och ärlighet som gjorde Rädd att flyga till en klassiker, beskriver Jong sitt liv som författare.
I sina memoarer är Erica Jong uppfriskande direkt - oavsett om hon a[...]