The groundbreaking #1 New York Times Bestseller -- updated for the 50th Anniversary with a New Foreword by Molly Jong-Fast and a New Introduction by Taffy Brodesser-Akner!“The boundary-breaking novel that redefined sexuality.” -- O MagazineIsador...
Erica Jong--like Isadora Wing, her fictional doppelganger--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 are the perfect literary and libidinous g...
Married (again) and divorced (again), Isadora Wing is a single parent with an adorable daughter, an irritating ex-husband, and a startling assortment of suitors: an unorthodox rabbi, a poetic disc jockey, the son of a famous sex therapist, and WASPil...
WITH HER GROUNDBREAKING BESTSELLER FEAR OF FLYING, ERICA JONG TAUGHT US HOW TO FLY. NOW, WITH ANY WOMAN'S BLUES, SHE SHOWS US HOW TO LAND. Leila Sand, artist, mother, and world-class celebrity, is a true woman of her times. She came of age in the ...
Jessica Pruitt is one of Hollywood's most alluring and admired actresses, but her love life is a shambles, until, in Venice filming a movie of
A 100-year epic of a Jewish family in America, told by Sara, who in the year 2005 finds herself drawn into the tumultuous lives of her ancestors. From her great-grandmother Sarah Solomon through to her grandmother Salome and her mother Sally, Sara al...
First published in 1997, Inventing Memory is about four generations of remarkable women from a Jewish-American family-their triumphs, tragedies, scandals, and love affairs-as related by Sara Solomon, the youngest of these women. While trying to chron...
Erica Jong, the author of "Fear of Flying", was a correspondent and friend of Henry Miller for the last decade of his life. In this blend of biography, autobiography, scholarship and polemic, she sets out to re-evaluate Miller's work and to rescue hi...
"Sappho's Leap delights."―USA Today
Sappho's Leap is a journey back 2,600 years to inhabit the mind of the greatest love poet the world has ever known. At the age of fourteen, Sappho is seduced by the beautiful poet Alcaeus, plots with him to...Seducing the Demon has introduced Erica Jong to readers who hadn't been born when Fear of Flying was published in 1973. Now one of her finest works of nonfiction -and a New York Times bestseller-is back in print with a new afterword. In Fear of Fift...
Four decades ago, Erica Jong revolutionized the way we look at love, marriage and sex. Her world-wide bestseller, FEAR OF FLYING opened the doors for writers from Jennifer Weiner to Lena Dunham. Now she does it again by giving us powerful, new perspe...
In prose and poetry, the witch is examined as historical reality and as archetype--Halloween hag, full-breasted seductress, natural healer, never without peer, scapegoat, and lingering vestige of a primeval religion--in a study that also features rec...