New Releases by Erica Jong

Feministisk klassiker och en av 1970-talets mest omdebatterade romaner »Boken som startade allt av kvinnan som startade allt. Nödvändig läsning för alla kvinnor som vill se sig själva som intellektuellt och sexuellt levande. Lika aktuell i dag som när den skrevs.« Naomi Wolf Isadora Wing, en journalist från New York, reser tillsammans med sin man Bennet till Wien för att delta i en konferens för psykoanalytiker. Väl där träffar hon den brittiske psykologen Adrian, som hon genast känner sig attraherad av. Utan att göra några särskilda försök att dölja det inleder Isadora en affär med Adrian, och inom henne väcks en allt starkare lust att bryta sig fri. När konferensen är över väljer Isadora att lämna Bennet och i stället följa med Adrian tillbaka till London. Det blir början på deras gemensamma resa genom Europa, en för Isadora känslomässig resa som får minnen av gamla relationer att komma till ytan igen, såväl som rädslor och begär och inte minst den komplexa relationen till hennes egen kropp. Rädd att flyga publicerades första gången 1973 och blev en omedelbar sensation. I dess kölvatten uppstod en intensiv debatt om kvinnor och sexualitet, som har gett ekon långt in i vår tid. I översättning av Annika Preis. ERICA JONG [1942] är en amerikansk författare och poet. Mest känd är hon för romanen Rädd att flyga [1973], som har sålt i över 20 miljoner exemplar och som haft stor betydelse för den andra vågens feminism. »Den här boken kommer att skriva litteraturhistoria.« Henry Miller

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 Magazine Isadora Wing is tired. Tired of being psychoanalyzed. Tired of grad school. Tired of fighting with her husband. Tired of having unfulfilled desires. She thinks she knows what she''s searching for and how to achieve it. But her quest to engage in no-strings-attached sex quickly shifts into a journey of self-discovery that will leave her questioning her own mind, her ideals, and what she truly wants in life.... Originally published in 1973, the ground-breaking, uninhibited story of Isadora Wing and her desire to fly free caused a national sensation. It fueled fantasies, ignited debates, and introduced a notorious new phrase to the English language. Now, after fifty years, this revolutionary novel still stands as a timeless tale of self-discovery, liberation, and womanhood. “Smart, bold, bracing and, importantly, extremely funny.”—Meg Wolitzer

Che cosa è successo a Isadora una volta uscita dalla vasca? Ha imparato finalmente a volare? Tre anni dopo le vicende di Paura di volare, Erica Jong riprende in questo libro la storia della protagonista. Con due matrimoni e un romanzo di successo alle spalle, Isadora è ora più matura, più saggia e in un certo senso più infelice. Questa volta la sua odissea non la conduce in Europa, ma in California, dove incontra una grande varietà di squali, furfanti e illusi. Uno a uno vengono esplorati e distrutti i miti della fama, di Hollywood e della sperimentazione sessuale, per arrivare alla conclusione che è necessario e possibile salvarsi la vita. Isadora troverà la strada per farlo, travolgendo lettrici e lettori in un torrente brioso e stravagante di parole.

The New York Times–bestselling author of Fear of Flying celebrates witches in a gorgeously illustrated brew of witchcraft lore, potions, secrets, and myth. With a mix of genuine fascination, passionate enthusiasm, and keen feminist insight, Erica Jong wades through a bog of myths, misinformation, historical hysteria, and contemporary Halloween costumes to offer a generous exploration and celebration of witches. From their origins as descendants of ancient goddesses to contemporary practitioners of the craft, the evolution of the concept of "witch" has been as changeable as the centuries themselves. From evil crone to sexual seductress, they are the embodiment of both light and dark, fertility and death, divinity and paganism, baleful curses and healing cures. They have been scapegoated as the object of men''s worst fears and embraced as heroines of female empowerment. As muses, they have influenced popular culture from Shakespeare and Yeats to Anne Sexton and Ken Russell. With reverence and a hint of mischief, Jong reveals witches'' rites, rituals, and magical recipes, including authentic spells and incantations. "A steaming cauldron of beautifully illustrated prose, poetry, love potions and flying lotions" ( Glamour) from the renowned author of Fanny, Witches is "nothing less than a complete transformation of our concept of witches . . . accomplishe[d] with panache in this sumptuously and provocatively illustrated book" ( Publishers Weekly). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erica Jong, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author''s personal collection.

Superati (anche se non sappiamo esattamente da quanto!) i cinquanta, Vanessa Wonderman si divide tra le cure ai genitori ormai anziani, una figlia incinta da accompagnare alle periodiche visite mediche e un marito, Asher, di quindici anni più anziano di lei, meno abile di un tempo a soddisfare il desiderio ancora vivo di Vanessa. Con gli anni dei suoi successi come attrice alle spalle, Vanessa inizia a comprendere che tutto sommato gli inizi sono facili, mentre i finali possono rivelarsi assai più complicati. Che la fonte delle sue fantasie giovanili possa essere colmata da Zipless.com? Un sito ispirato dai libri della sua migliore amica, Isadora Wing, e che promette incontri "senza impegno" che daranno a Vanessa la possibilità di provare qualsiasi esperienza. Seguito ideale di Paura di volare, questo nuovo romanzo di Erica Jong è il ritratto coraggioso, pieno di humor e ferocemente onesto, di una donna matura del ventunesimo secolo, che ama la vita e ama sentirsi amata, che non rinnega il suo passato e pensa ancora che il futuro possa riservare delle felici sorprese.

The iconic, bestselling author delivers her first book in ten years-and the sequel to the groundbreaking novel, Fear of Flying

Coltivare la scrittura è come coltivare la libertà. Sei sempre in marcia, ma non arrivi mai. La gente continua a chiederti: "Ma come hai fatto?" Così, dopo un po', cominci a chiedertelo anche tu. Questo libro è appunto il tentativo di rispondere a questa domanda – rimpianti, errori, divorzi, querele e tutto il resto.

In this "amazing tour de force," an actress travels back in time and has an affair with William Shakespeare, from a #1 New York Times bestseller ( Cosmopolitan). An aging Hollywood film star, Jessica Pruitt fears the best days of her career are behind her. Arriving in Italy, she hopes to escape her worries by serving as a judge at the Venice Film Festival and immersing herself in preparations for her starring role in a new cinematic take on The Merchant of Venice. The ancient, crumbling city of canals is the perfect escape, enchanting Jessica with its history, its magic, and its mystery. Then one day she finds herself in a very different Venice—one that hasn''t existed for five hundred years—as the heroine of a new theatrical endeavor by an enigmatic young playwright named Will Shakespeare. Suddenly, impossibly, Jessica has found a new beginning, a new audience—and, in the arms of a genius fledgling bard, a love affair more stimulating, satisfying, and liberating than any she will ever know, even five centuries on. Originally published as Serenissima, this "hypnotic" novel by the bestselling author of Fear of Flying is delightfully uninhibited love story that transcends time ( The Washington Post Book World). "Erica Jong can write a historical novel that both honors its tradition with affectionate parody and creates its own full fictional reality." — The New York Times Book Review "A sexy adventure story which is a real page turner." —Ken Follett, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Pillars of the Earth This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erica Jong including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author''s personal collection.

Isadora Wing er redd for å fly. Hun har en intens følelse av å miste fotfestet, av å falle utfor stupet og måtte gi seg over til det store ukjente ... Slik kjenner hun det også når hun setter seg på flyet i New York for å reise til en psykoanalytikerkongress i Wien.Velfremme blir Isadora lokket med på en svimlende, erotisk reise tvers over hele Europa – et vilt eventyr som ender på et hotell i Paris. Der blir hun forlatt av sin demoniske elsker, Adrian Goodlove, som vender tilbake til sitt stabile familieliv.Men Isadora har ikke tapt! Hun har vunnet en sterk følelse av frihet. Og flyskrekken er borte ... Jeg tør ikke fly slo ned som en bombe da den kom på syttitallet: direkte på sak og svært djerv i sin skildring av kvinneligseksualitet. En frekk og morsom, sensuell og livsbejaende bok! I dag blir vi ikke lenger sjokkert over frimodig sex i litteraturen, men spørsmålene Erica Jong tar opp om kvinnensplass i livet er fortsatt like aktuelle. Erica Jong (født 1942) vokste opp i New York. Hun studerte ved Columbia University der hun tok eksamen i engelsk 1700-tallslitteratur. 31 år gammel skrev hun "Jeg tør ikke fly". Romanen fikk en flying start, ryktet om den spredte seg som ild i tørt gress blant lesere verden over. Aldri før hadde noen skrevet om kvinners sexliv på denne måten. Mange var dypt sjokkert over Jongs frimodighet og ærlighet, mens berømte, mannlige forfattere som John Updike og Henry Miller hyllet henne. Med ett slag hade Erica Jong snudd opp ned på vante forestillinger. Erica Jong skrev om kvinnens rett til å være seg selv, og hun stilte spørsmål ved kvinnensavhengighet av å bli sett av menn. Boken hennes bidro til å forandre en hel generasjons syn på hva det innebar å være kvinne, og har blitt en moderne klassiker som har solgt i 20 millioner eksemplare

Love Comes First is Erica Jong’s long-awaited return to her poetic roots! Here is Erica Jong’s first book of all-new poems in more than a decade. Known and beloved for Fear of Flying and her many other books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, Jong expounds on the most eternal, universal topic of all: love. Using brilliant imagery and intense metaphorical insights to paint vivid pictures of love, and all that comes with it—the heights of elation, the depths of sorrow—she covers every inch of the spectrum with her vibrant and insightful words. Perfect for wedding showers, lovers of all ages, and Valentine’s Day, Jong’s trademark trailblazing style and remarkable ability to bridge the gap between literary and popular poetry makes Love Comes First an instant classic. Discover— or discover yet again—the brilliance of Erica Jong. Watch the trailer for this book:

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 chronicle their history, the story becomes essentially hers, as she comes to understand the nature of memory, the way all of us both invent and assimilate our ancestors. In learning about the women in her family, Sara discovers how to create her own future.

A tale of addiction and narcissism—the twin obsessions of our age. World-famous folk singer Leila Sand emerged from the sixties and seventies with addictions to drugs and booze. Leila''s latest addiction is to a younger man who leaves her sexually ecstatic but emotionally bereft. The orgasmic frenzies trump the betrayals, so she keeps coming back for more. Eventually, Leila frees herself by learning the rules of love, the Twelve Steps, and the Key to Serenity in an odyssey that takes her from AA meetings to dens of sin, parties with "names" worth dropping, and unforgettable gondola rides. Jong has given us a poignant exploration of life, art, and the complexities of womanhood.

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 Fifty, a New York Times bestseller when first published in 1994, Erica Jong looks to the second half of her life and "goes right to the jugular of the women who lived wildly and vicariously through Fear of Flying" (Publishers Weekly), delivering highly entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and motherhood. "What Jong calls a midlife memoir is a slice of autobiography that ranks in honesty, self-perception and wisdom with [works by] Simone de Beauvoir and Mary McCarthy," wrote the Sunday Times (U.K.). "Although Jong''s memoir of a Jewish American princess is wittier than either."

In Conversations with Erica Jong one of the most popular and controversial of contemporary writers has her say. She was already an established poet when she published Fear of Flying (1973), but the novel''s sensational reception came to overshadow all her work. In interviews from 1973 to 2001, Jong relates the extra-ordinary experience she gained as a pioneer of sexual writing from a female point of view. With equal attention to the art of fiction and poetry, she yields her views on the literary scene and on the place of poetry in American society. Among the highlights of the book is Jong''s account of the publication of Fear of Flying and its remarkable, best-seller rise. Cast into the role of spokesperson for feminism in the seventies, she has continued to represent her generation of women. In several conversations, she talks about the tensions within feminism over the decades. Jong''s fame has been deeply branded by the notoriety associated with sex. She speaks for all women writers who have addressed sexual topics and who have suffered retaliation. She tells the story of the struggle to keep writing honestly when the public''s perception of one''s work has made one a target. She describes the difficulty of escaping categories created by the media and the critical community and the frustration of living in the shadow of one notorious best-seller. In Jong''s writing, humor is a constant, and one of the pleasures of reading these conversations is her abundant wit. Conversations with Erica Jong reveals the writer to be funny, articulate, and passionately committed to her art. Charlotte Templin is the author of Feminism and the Politics of Literary Reputation: The Example of Erica Jong. Her work has appeared in American Studies, The Missouri Review, and Centennial Review.

The book begins with a question: Why Henry Miller? "Miller remains among the most misunderstood of writers - seen either as a pornographer or a guru, a sexual enslaver or a sexual liberator, a prophet or a pervert. All the questions his life and oeuvre raise about the role of the writer in society, the impact of books on sexual politics, the impact of sexual politics on books, the threat of censorship to free speech and written expression are, unfortunately, as fresh today as they ever were". Part biography, part memoir, part critical study, part exploration of sexual politics in our time, The Devil at Large is an event: a book that promises to rescue Miller from the facile charges of misogyny, anti-Semitism, and titillation that have been lobbed at him over the years, and brilliantly captures the exuberance, audacity, and energy that defined his life and art. More than that, it is a reunion between a young writer and her mentor. In 1974, while Fear of Flying was still a relatively obscure first novel, Erica Jong received an enthusiastic fan letter from Henry Miller, then an old man of eighty-three. Miller credited himself with "discovering" Jong, and his faithful correspondence guided her through a year of enormous change. The two writers - chastised and celebrated for their lusty prose, accused of conflating autobiography with fiction in their respective generations - found they were kindred spirits, and began a friendship that would last until Miller''s death in 1980. "Make it all up!" was Miller''s appeal to Jong to become his biographer. But in reexamining Miller, Jong has not had to fictionalize. She has imparted a deeper understanding of a life whose dramatic particulars have longsince been mythologized, dramatized, and cannibalized by those in search of a lusty life story. Jong puts the works, the letters, the loves through a prism that clarifies the creative impulse, making this slim book a quintessential chronicle of a writer''s life and a mirror of our own times. "Always the flesh and the vision together", Anais Nin said of Miller. The Devil at Large asks its readers to look anew at these elements and come to a new appreciation of a twentieth-century visionary and prophet.

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, including Berkeley Sproul III, who is 14 years her junior. Of course their affair is tortuous and sexy, but is it love?

Left as an infant on the doorstep of a grand English estate, Fanny is raised to young womanhood by Lord and Lady Bellars. A beautiful woman with a taste for literature, Fanny is ambitious to become the epic poet of her age -- but her plans are dashed after she is ravished by her libertine adoptive father. Fleeing to London, Fanny meets up with idealistic witches and a band of highwaymen who teach her of worlds she never knew existed. She embarks on a series of adventures that take her from a London brothel that caters to the literati, to a pirate ship on the high seas and beyond, teaching her what she must know to live and prosper as a woman. Erica Jong offers us entrance into an age long past, replete with the boisterousness and bawdiness that are often missed in its histories. The result is a highly entertaining, original work of fiction. Book jacket.

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 guides for those readers who want to learn about-or just be reminded of-the sheer hedonistic innocence of the time. "How to Save Your Own Life" was praised by "People" for being "shameless, sex-saturated and a joy," and hailed by Anthony Burgess as one of the ninety-nine best novels published in English since 1939.