Not ordering to the United States Click here. Expected delivery to the United States in 8-13 business days. And she says, 'This is not what I was looking for. Fear of Flying 3.46 (20,764 ratings by Goodreads) Paperback Vintage Blue English By (author) Erica Jong US15.98 Free delivery worldwide Available. He says he'll put rocks in her shoes and clean her toilets. 'One of them wants to be her personal slave. In scenes both serious and hilariously funny, Vanessa meets a parade of 'meshugenahs,' Jong says. So, in a sly nod to Jong's first book, Vanessa signs up for a sex website called. Read an excerpt from Erica Jong's 'Fear of Dying' Fear of Flying by Erica Jong read the first chapter ‘There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I’d been treated by at least six of them’: so opens Erica Jong’s iconic.

Sex was for twenty, thirty, forty, even fifty. We were supposed to become grandmothers and retreat into serene sexlessness. at age 73, she's back with 'Fear of Dying,' this time about issues of vitality and mortality facing an aging former actress.Īs Jong told a rapt audience in suburban New Jersey, her heroine, Vanessa Wonderman, must cope with aging parents, an ailing husband, and her own intense sexual desire: 'Women were not allowed to have passion at sixty. The novel is written in the first person, narrated by its protagonist, Isadora Zelda White Stollerman Wing, a 29-year-old poet who has published two books of poetry. It became controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality, and figured in the development of second-wave feminism. Well, actually, more than 27 million people DID read the book! And now, more than 40 years later. Fear of Flying is a 1973 novel by Erica Jong.