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Erica Jong
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Fear of Flying |
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English |
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Paperback |
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480 |
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2003-11-04 |
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0451209435 |
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NAL |
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0.9 pounds |
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1.0 x 5.32 x 7.98 inches |
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Reprint |
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The 30th Anniversary special!
Originally published in 1973, the ground-breaking, uninhibited story of Isadora Wing and her desire to fly free caused a national sensation—and sold more than twelve million copies. Now, after thirty years, the iconic novel still stands as a timeless tale of self-discovery, liberation, and womanhood.
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M. Swanson (USA: WA) (2007/11/05):
Timeless? Erotic? Awakening? YAWN. The painfully self-conscious, self-induced angst of the narrator set my teeth on edge. Her overwrought self-indulgent crap made me want to reach deep into the book and strangle the pabulum right out of her. This is one of a genre of thinly-veiled self-aggrandizing narratives of How The Writer Came To Find Her Voice Against All Odds. Only thing is, there really are very few odds opposing her, so she had to make stuff up out of whole cloth. The narrator - much like the author one strongly suspects given the barely-disguised autobiographical nature of the "novel" - is a daughter of a charmingly eccentric New York family with access to the annals of power a West Coaster could only dream of. Histrionic diatribes against the corruption of an Ivy League education fall flat on readers who would trade life and limb for access to that very thing. Lengthy relationships with Freudian analysts and the narrator's acceptance of their imaginary explanations for made-up neuroses are beyond tiresome. Finally - and perhaps most offensively - the narrator finds her voice only after being treated abominably by her lover and in turn treating her husband just as badly. This sort of selfishness can only be understood by a baby boomer, methinks, and those of us who've come after the Most Self-Indulgent Generation will have no truck with it.Having said all of the above, at least I hated the narrator enough to read the entire book. Please mooch it from me so I don't have to look at it on my shelf any longer than necessary.
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