Fear Of Flying
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
When thirty-year-old Isadora Wing boards a plane to Vienna with her second husband, she is already dreaming of escape — not from the flight itself, but from the suffocating conventions of marriage, womanhood, and the relentless expectations of mid-twentieth-century American life. Erica Jong's landmark 1973 novel chronicles Isadora's restless, witty, and searingly honest pursuit of freedom, desire, and self-definition, as she embarks on an affair with the anarchic British psychoanalyst Adrian Goodlove and hurtles toward a reckoning with her own identity. Fear of Flying arrives as a full-throated declaration of female consciousness, unafraid to present women's inner lives — sexual, intellectual, and emotional — with the same unflinching candour previously reserved for male protagonists. Jong's prose is electric and confessional, marrying the comic energy of Philip Roth with the raw authenticity of Sylvia Plath, which is precisely why the cover boldly heralded it as The Female Answer to Portnoy's Complaint. A feminist touchstone that ignited fierce debate and devoted readership in equal measure, this is the novel that dares to ask: what does a woman truly want — and what will she risk to find out?
Author: Erica Jong
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
When thirty-year-old Isadora Wing boards a plane to Vienna with her second husband, she is already dreaming of escape — not from the flight itself, but from the suffocating conventions of marriage, womanhood, and the relentless expectations of mid-twentieth-century American life. Erica Jong's landmark 1973 novel chronicles Isadora's restless, witty, and searingly honest pursuit of freedom, desire, and self-definition, as she embarks on an affair with the anarchic British psychoanalyst Adrian Goodlove and hurtles toward a reckoning with her own identity. Fear of Flying arrives as a full-throated declaration of female consciousness, unafraid to present women's inner lives — sexual, intellectual, and emotional — with the same unflinching candour previously reserved for male protagonists. Jong's prose is electric and confessional, marrying the comic energy of Philip Roth with the raw authenticity of Sylvia Plath, which is precisely why the cover boldly heralded it as The Female Answer to Portnoy's Complaint. A feminist touchstone that ignited fierce debate and devoted readership in equal measure, this is the novel that dares to ask: what does a woman truly want — and what will she risk to find out?