Isadora Wing är rädd för att flyga. Den där känslan av att tappa fotfästet, att lämna den invanda tryggheten och ge sig hän åt ett nyckfullt öde. Så känner hon det också när hon sätter sig på planet till New York för att åka till en psykoanalytikerk…
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 Fif…
Five years of marriage have made her itchy - itchy for men, and itchy for solitude. Ditching her second husband during a work conference in Vienna she decides to cut and run, criss-crossing her way across Europe in search of the perfect no-strings-a…
Erica Jong has never stopped writing poetry. It was her first love and it has provided inspiration for all her other books. In a dark time, she celebrates life. Her title comes from the Brazilian genius Clarice Lispector who was deeply in love with…
'I loved Fear of Dying. I found it irreverent, funny, tender and very wise and it made me feel more alive' RACHEL JOYCE, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Vanessa Wonderman is smart, sexy - and sixty. After a lifetime of crazy families, New York…
This classic novel of self-discovery, freedom, and womanhood records the erotic fantasies and outrageous adventures of Isadora Wing who travels constantly in spite of her phobia of flight, accompanied by a new introduction by the author. Reprint.
This ground-breaking novel of self-discovery, freedom, and womanhood records the erotic fantasies and outrageous adventures of Isadora Wing who travels constantly in spite of her phobia of flight, accompanied by a new introduction by the author. Rep…
Discovered on the doorstep of a country estate in Wiltshire, England, the infant Fanny is raised to womanhood by her adoptive parents, Lord and Lady Bellars. Fanny wants to become the epic poet of the age, but her plans are dashed when she is ravish…
A striking deluxe edition commemorating the 40th anniversary of Erica Jong's groundbreaking classic Before Hannah from Girls, Anastasia Steele from Fifty Shades of Grey, and Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City, there was Isadora Wing, the uninhibi…
"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 overthrow the dictator of their island,…
A 100-year epic of a Jewish family in America, told through the stories of four generations of women from one unconventional, artistic clan. This is the story of mothers and daughters, grandmothers and great-grandmothers, a saga of the 20th-century…
When the beautiful Jessica Pruitt arrives in Venice to star in a film based on The Merchant of Venice, she is preoccupied: She has recently lost custody of her daughter, and as an older actress she is increasingly aware of the difficulty of landing…
Erica Jong's two rules of writing are never cut funny and keep the pages turning. And Jong delivers in these twenty-six essays, coupling frank and risqu? stories about her own life with provocative pieces on her passion for politics, literature, Ita…
Career, baby and a gloriously liberated love life; suddenly single, uninhibited Isadora is besieged by more suitors than she can keep track of: an Orthodox rabbi, a poetic DJ, the son of a famous sex therapist and, finally, Bean, the demonic-Byronic…
"Flashy, flip, and hilarious as well as smart and wise." -Booklist (starred review)Four decades ago, Erica Jong revolutionized the way we look at love, marriage, and sex. Her worldwide bestseller, Fear of Flying opened the doors for writers from Jen…
Genudgivelse i paperback. Den sandfærdige historie om Fanny Hill og hendes eventyrlige oplevelser. "Eminent underholdende ? et virkeligt godt erotisk møde med 1700-tallets sæder og skikke, filosofi og tankebaner." - Jyllands-Posten.
This is a kaleidoscopic collection of Erica Jong's provocative prose, covering politics, pornography, motherhood and writing, with turns from Hillary Rodham Clinton, Lolita, Princess Diana and Louise Woodward. It surfs the waves of feminism from the…
Vanessa Wonderman on elämänsä iltapäivässä. Hän seuraa sivusta, kun hänen vanhempansa kuihtuvat kohti kuolemaa, ja hän istuu itseään viisitoista vuotta vanhemman miehensä sairasvuoteen vierellä. Tuntuu, että omatkin parhaat vuodet ovat jo takana. Uu…
VINGESKUDT er en morsom, hjerteskærende og smuk historie, om hvad der sker, når en kvinde modvilligt træder ind i sit livs efterår. Vanessa Wonderman er en smuk forhenværende skuespillerinde i tresserne, der balancerer mellem sine døende forældre, s…
Vanessa Wonderman är en vacker före detta skådespelerska som plötsligt finner sig att ta hand om sina döende föräldrar, sin åldrande make och hennes älskade gravida dotter. Hon anser sig vara lyckligt gift. Men efter att ha tillbringat en hel dag på…
With two marriages and a best-selling novel behind her, Isadora Wing reviews the stages by which her life with Bennett disintegrated and finds genuine love as well as joyous adventure and sex in the never-never land of southern California. Reprint.…
Erica Jong's memoir-a national bestseller-was probably the most wildly reviewed book of 2006. Critics called it everything from brutally funny, risqu? and wonderfully unrepentant, and rowdy, self-deprecating, and endearing to a car wreck.* Throughou…
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 chro…
In the perfect match of author and subject, poet and novelist Erica Jong charts the life and legacy of Henry Miller, the archetypal sensualist whose notorious Tropic of Cancer and subsequent books ultimately changed the boundaries of literature.
"Adjø, vinket han og trådte inn i eplet. Den røde sirenen hvis hvite kjøtt blir brunt når det utsettes i lengre tid for luft, åpnet sine perfekte kinn for å ta ham imot. Hun slapp ham inn. Hagen dreide rundt i hennes blanke patina av hud. Adjø" Eric…
A story of Venice today and Venice in its illustrious past, this novel gives the reader a portrait of the modern-day film world and a clue to the passions behind Shakespeare's most enigmatic work. Jessica Pruitt, a Hollywood actress in her forties h…
Picks up the story of Isadora three years after the events of "Fear of Flying". Isadora is by now an older, wiser and somewhat more rueful heroine. This time her odyssey takes her to the never-never land called California where she meets a variety o…
When the beautiful Jessica Pruitt arrives in Venice to star in a film based on The Merchant of Venice, she is preoccupied: she has recently lost custody of her daughter, and as an older actress she is increasingly aware of the difficulty of landing…
Sappho's Leap is a journey back 2000 years to inhabit the mind of the greatest love poet the world has ever known. At the age of 14, Sappho is seduced by the beautiful poet Alcaeus, plots with him to overthrow the dictator of the island, and is caug…
"I need a little sugar in my bowl, I need a little hot dog, on my roll I can stand a bit of loving, oh so bad, I feel so funny, I feel so sad". (Bessie Smith). When it comes to sex, what do women want? In this eye-opening and courageous collection,…
Pocket-udgave af Erica Jongs berømte og kontroversielle debutroman fra 1973. Isidora Wing drømmer om "det gnidningsløse knald" - fri for engagement, magtkamp og fortrydelse. Hun falder for en englænder, som hun tror er svaret på hendes erotiske fant…
