Fear of Flying.
"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it": First Edition of Fear of Flying; Signed by Erica Jong
Fear of Flying.
JONG, Erica.
$300.00
Item Number: 145167
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.
First edition of this incredible novel. Octavo, original glittery sky blue cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, “Erica Jong 21 March 06.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Judith Seifer. Author photograph by Peter Trump.
Award-winning author Erica Jong develops the phenomenal story of a woman in pursuit of liberation in 'Fear of Flying.' Isadora Wing dreams compulsively about drinking the marrow of life; lured away from her psychiatrist husband into exuberant roadside experiences, Isadora is left to face the ghosts of her past on a passionate existential journey. "An explosion of light and joy ... One has to go back to 'Lolita' to find an odyssey of misadventurous love-and-sex affairs as funny and sad, as witty and inventive, and as true as this. If you just read it for the language, for a poet's shocks of insight, you'll get your money's worth. And you'll have a marvelous time besides" (Elizabeth Janeway).
