Fear of Flying
by Jong, Erica
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0436224429
- ISBN 13
- 9780436224423
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
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Synopsis
Erica Jong is the author of nineteen books of poetry, fiction, and memoir, including Fear of Flying , which has more than 18 million copies in print worldwide. Her most recent essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review , and she is a frequent guest on television talk shows. Currently working on a novel featuring Isadora Wing—the heroine of Fear of Flying —as a woman of a certain age, Erica and her lawyer husband live in New York City and Connecticut. Her daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, is also an author. Erica Jong left a Ph.D. program at Columbia to write her ground-breaking novel Fear of Flying , published in 1973. Jong is the author of numerous award-winning books of poetry and novels including Fanny , How to Save Your Own Life , Parachutes and Kisses , Any Woman’s Blues , and the forthcoming Sappho’s Leap . She is also the author of the memoir Fear of Fifty . She lives in New York City and Connecticut.
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- Bookseller
- Ariel Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8182
- Title
- Fear of Flying
- Author
- Jong, Erica
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First British
- ISBN 10
- 0436224429
- ISBN 13
- 9780436224423
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- FICTION GENERAL Humor Feminist
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women & Feminism;
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