People Like Us.

DUNNE, Dominick [Erica Jong].

$400.00

Item Number: 142904

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1988.

First edition of Dunne’s richly textured novel of New York society in the eighties. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Erica & Ken Best regards, Dominic Dunne.” The recipients, American writer Erica Jong and lawyer Kenneth David Burrows were married in August of 1989. 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. Jacket design by James K. Davis.

"A superb behind-the-scenes melodrama of New York society in the 80's--a kind of companion piece to The Bonfire of the Vanities for those interested in the doings of Gotham's real-life rich and famous (often only thinly disguised here)" (Kirkus Reviews).