Fear of Flying
by Erica Jong
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Author: Erica JongIntroduction: Erica Jong
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-11-04
ISBN: 0451209435
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: NAL Trade
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Book Review: Part Fiction, Part Memoir
Summary: 5 Stars
It has been 36 years since Fear of Flying was first published, and in the years since, Germany has changed, the place of women have changed, sexual mores have changed, and Jewish America has undoubtedly changed as well. Is this book still relevant? Do the questions that protagonist Isadora Wing-- part fictional, part based on author Erica Jong's own life, still speak to us? It's hard to say.
But the jokes (for the most part) are still funny, I found myself smiling at this or that absurdity despite myself, despite sharing virtually nothing in common with Isadora. I could sense that the references were timeless, even though I didn't get most of them. And the writing is still high quality-- after finishing this book I started reading a book by another writer published in 2009 and I had to stop because found myself nitpicking almost every sentence as awkward or too literal or not descriptive enough or too wordy.
The plot is threadbare- an overachieving, deceptively self-effacing writer with the kind of paranoias that overachieving people tend to have- is given an experience "to write about" by an Englishman she meets at a psychiatric conference in Vienna. After some agonizing, she decides to take it, a luxury afforded her by a permissive husband who's response to catching her cheating is not violence or abandonment but something that you'll have to read the book yourself to find out. As she goes through her trip with this guy she sprinkles on the literary references to prove her sophistication, sprinkles on the frank sexual passages, and you get to know her family, her first husband, and other background.
It's one person's experience and it's not your experience or my experience. But it's pleasurable to read a book like this as long as the writing is so good. It does make you wish that all partners would be so understanding and that all sexual flings would result in "a 19th century ending."
Summary of Fear of Flying
The 30th Anniversary special!
Originally published in 1973, the ground-breaking, uninhibited story of Isadora Wing and her desire to fly free caused a national sensation?and sold more than twelve million copies. Now, after thirty years, the iconic novel still stands as a timeless tale of self-discovery, liberation, and womanhood.
Originally published in 1973, the ground-breaking, uninhibited story of Isadora Wing and her desire to fly free caused a national sensation?and sold more than twelve million copies. Now, after thirty years, the iconic novel still stands as a timeless tale of self-discovery, liberation, and womanhood.
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