Fear of Flying

This succès de scandale from 1973 remains funny, clever and perceptive. – John Bungey * The Times *
Unbridled classic. * Daily Telegraph *
An intelligent, expressive examination of a woman’s mind, and of her gradual understanding of what feminism means… Erica Jong was a pioneer…she was, and still is, honest, brazen, bold and funny… If you want an insight into what life was really like for clever, sexy women 40 or 50 years ago, and how far we’ve come, you could do a lot worse than pick up Fear of Flying. * ASOS *
Witty, brazen and liberating * Independent *
Uninhibited, erotic, delicious – John Updike
Furiously good * Guardian *
Extraordinary… At once wildly funny and very wise * Los Angeles Times *
A picaresque, funny, touching adventure * New York Review of Books *
Great humour… energetic, bawdy * New York Times *
Brilliantly articulate-the wit is dazzling – Monica Dickens

Erica Jong is a poet, novelist and essayist whose works have been influential all over the world. Her first novel Fear of Flying has sold over 27 million copies from the US and Europe to China. Fear of Flying has just celebrated its 40th Anniversary with new editions in many languages. She is the author of seven widely honoured volumes of poetry, eight novels and seven non-fiction books. Her forthcoming novel is Fear of Dying, due for release in September 2015. Among other awards she has been honoured with the Fernanda Pivano Award for Literature in Italy, the Sigmund Freud award in Italy, the United Nations Award for Excellence in Literature and Poetry Magazine’s Bess Hokin Prize.

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