Fear of Flying

by Jong, Erica

• ISBN13: 9780451209948
• ISBN10: 045120994X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Berkley Pub Group

Summary

Isadora Wing was afraid of flying. She was also afraid of her own beauty, brains, physical appetites, and intellectual curiosity. Then, while on a trip to Vienna with her brilliant, handsome psychiatrist husband, Isadora met the man who embodied her most erotic fantasiesand who offered her a chance to conquer all her fears. What happened to Isadora then was a wild, sexually extravegant bold across Europe that had worldwide reverberationsin the most uninhibited, delicious, wonderfully witty, erotic novel a woman ever wrote. This is the classic novel that changed the landscape of American fiction forever.

Author Biography

Erica Jong grew up on Manhattan's Upper West Side and attended Barnard College, where she majored in writing and literature, and she later received her M.A. in eighteenth-century English literature from Columbia University. She left halfway through the Ph.D. program to write her groundbreaking first novel, Fear of Flying, which went on to sell 12.5 million copies worldwide. She is also the author of many award-winning books of poetry, novels, and non-fiction including Sappho's Leap, Fanny, Any Woman's Blues, and Fear of Fifty. She lives in New York City and Connecticut. Her work has had a major impact on women's lives all over the world.