Any Woman's Blues_ A Novel of Obsession - Erica Jong [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Foreword
Chapter 1 - Sugar in My Bowl
Chapter 2 - Deciphering the Fire
Chapter 3 - Strong Woman’s Blues
Chapter 4 - Playing Penelope
Chapter 5 - The Land of Fuck (or Any Woman’s Blues)
Chapter 6 - Experience, Strength, Hope
Chapter 7 - The Painter and the Pimp
Chapter 8 - White Nights and After
Chapter 9 - Bravado and After
Chapter 10 - Blue Blues
Chapter 11 - Sobriety Blues
Chapter 12 - The Proper Millionaire
Chapter 13 - Spiritus Contra Spiritum
Chapter 14 - The Qualification
Chapter 15 - Lie Down, I Think I Love You (or That’s a Good Question, Young Lady)
Chapter 16 - Empty-Bed Blues
Chapter 17 - Leila in Nighttown
Chapter 18 - Bye-bye Blues
Chapter 19 - “Take Two Gondoliers and Call Me in the Morning”
Chapter 20 - Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues
afterword by Isadora Wing
credits and permissions
about the author
ALSO BY ERICA JONG
fiction
Fear of Flying
How to Save Your Own Life
Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones
Megan’s Book of Divorce; Megan’s Two Houses
Parachutes & Kisses
Serenissima: A Novel of Venice (republished as Shylock’s Daughter)
Inventing Memory
Sappho’s Leap
poetry
Fruits & Vegetables
Half-Lives
Loveroot
At the Edge of the Body
Ordinary Miracles
Becoming Light
nonfiction
Witches
The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller
Fear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir
What Do Women Want?
Seducing the Demon
JEREMY P. TARCHER/PENGUIN
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jong, Erica.
Any woman’s blues : a novel of obsession / Erica Jong.—1st Jeremy P. Tarcher pbk. ed. p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-101-11778-1
1. Women—Fiction. 2. Relationship addiction—Fiction. 3. Self-esteem—Fiction.
4. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
PS356.056A
813’.54—dc22
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For the impossible he who lives inside me
Throw your heart out in front of you and run ahead to catch it.
—ARAB PROVERB
I intend to stake out my own
claim, a tiny one, but my own.
Lacking a name for it, I’ll call
it—pro tem—The Land of Fuck.
—HENRY MILLER
Love has no words to spell or lines to start and stop.
—ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS (The Big Book)
The blues ain’t nothing but the facts of life.