Fear of Flying
Erica Jong(Author)
Vintage (Publisher)
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-09-959833-6 (ISBN)
Description
Compulsive daydreamer Isadora Wing doesn't want much - just to be free and to find the perfect, guiltless, zipless sexual encounter. Pursuing this ideal across two continents, she discovers just how hard it can be to make one's dreams come true. Though Isadora fears flying (in all possible senses), she forces herself to keep travelling, risking her marriage and even her life for her own special brand of liberation. This intensely witty and exuberant novel is about how she achieves her freedom and loses her fear.
Reviews / Votes
"Uninhibited, erotic, delicious... a winner" -- John Updike "Great humour... energetic, bawdy" New York Times "Brilliantly articulate-the wit is dazzling" -- Monica DickensMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-09-959833-6 (9780099598336)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Fear of Flying was Erica Jong's first novel and catapulted her to international fame, selling over ten million copies worldwide. It became one of the top-ten bestselling novels of the 1970s.