Choices.

ULLMANN, Liv [Erica Jong].

$200.00

Item Number: 142818

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.

First edition of Liv Ullmann’s quietly and beautifully written autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “Dear Erica Here is mine. Happy New Year with love to you and your. Hug – Liv. December – 84.” The recipient, Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was written in the throes of the Sexual Revolution of the 1970s and encapsulated the movement’s redefinition of female sexuality. In interviews, Jong stated: “At the time I wrote Fear of Flying, there was not a book that said women are romantic, women are intellectual, women are sexual—and brought all those things together… What [Isadora is] looking for is how to be a whole human being, a body and a mind, and that is what women were newly aware they needed in 1973.” The novel remains a feminist classic and has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Author photograph by Eva Sereny.

Choices takes us back into Liv Ullmann's extraordinary life as she shares her most personal thoughts and feelings about her loves, about her daughter, about her work as an actress and her impassioned work with UNICEF, and - most important and telling - about entering her middle years finding herself, perhaps for the first time in her life, ready and anxious to make the choices that reflect her own needs and desires rather than those of the people around her.