Any Woman's Blues_ A Novel of Obsession - Erica Jong [132]
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about the author
Erica Jong’s twentieth and most recent book, Seducing the Demon, is a “brutally funny, searingly sensual [and] fiercely honest memoir,” said the New York Post. And the Los Angeles Times praised it as “irreverent, risqué and wonderfully unrepentant. . . . We should all try to live up to [Erica’s] standard of self-awareness.” Jong has written three novels featuring Isadora Wing, her fictional doppelgänger: Fear of Flying, with more than 18 million copies in print worldwide; and How to Save Your Own Life and Parachutes and Kisses, both recently reissued by Tarcher/Penguin. Jong, who lives in New York City and Connecticut with her husband, is now at work on a novel featuring Isadora as a woman of a certain age.
Erica Jong Titles Available from Tarcher/Penguin
Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
“As lusty as ever” (Los Angeles Times) at sixty-four, Jong delivers a “brutally funny, searingly sensual [and] fiercely honest memoir” (New York Post) that has won over readers who weren’t born when Fear of Flying was published in 1973.
ISBN 1-58542-444-7 (hardcover) ISBN 1-58542-514-1 (paperback)
How to Save Your Own Life
An Isadora Wing novel
A New York Times bestseller. Isadora Wing “returns in triumph” (Cosmopolitan ) in this “zipless zinger” (Kirkus Reviews) of a follow-up to Fear of Flying. Erica Jong—like Isadora Wing, her fictional doppelgänger—was rich and famous, brainy and beautiful, and soaring high with erotica and marijuana in 1977, the year this book was first published. Erica/Isadora is the perfect literary and libidinous guide for those readers who want to learn about—or just be reminded of—the sheer hedonistic innocence of the time.
ISBN 1-58542-499-4 (paperback)
Parachutes and Kisses An Isadora Wing novel
First published in 1984, here is Erica Jong’s “raunchy, funny, explicit, and outrageous” (The New York Times) celebration of boy-toy love. Married (again) and divorced (again), Isadora Wing, Erica Jong’s fictional doppelgänger, is a single parent with an adorable daughter, an irritating ex-husband and a startingly handsome suitor, fourteen years her junior. Of course their affair is tortuous and sexy, but is it love? Or is the stud just after a trip to Venice, compliments of a famous author? Jong writes about boy-toy love with “a mixture of eloquence and savage wit as good as anything she has ever written,” said The Wall Street Journal.
ISBN 1-58542-500-1 (paperback)
Fear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir
In this New York Times bestseller, Erica Jong looks to the second half of her life and “goes right to the jugular of the women who lived wildly and vicariously through Fear of Flying” (Publishers Weekly), delivering highly entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and motherhood. “What Jong calls a midlife memoir is a slice of autobiography that ranks in honesty, self-perception and wisdom with [works by] Simone de Beauvoir and Mary Mc-Carthy,” wrote The Sunday Times (UK), “although Jong’s memoir of a Jewish American princess is wittier than either.”
ISBN 1-58542-524-9 (paperback)
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