Fear of Flying.

JONG, Erica.

$275.00

Item Number: 141273

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.

First edition of the author’s controversial, gound-breaking second-wave feminist classic which has sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Octavo, original cloth, red endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “For Katherine Kasten – from Erica Jong October 1973.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the foot of the rear panel. Jacket design by Judith Seifer. Author photograph by Peter Trump.

"An absorbing, passionate novel exploring totally new territory: the story of a highly sexual intellectual woman, a writer, and the craziness and the misery of the war between the mind and the body - the body wanting sex, sex, sex, and love and safety, comfort; the mind wanting freedom, independence, the power to work, to write. The book is very alive and real. It is wonderfully funny and sad, witty and agonizing, brilliant, sensual, serious. It is a brave and honest book" (Hannah Green).