Erica Jong

Even in a time when women are still sexually repressed, Isadora Wing wishes to "fly free" with a man who completes her every fantasy.

A brilliant amalgam of Tom Jones, Moll Flanders,and Fanny Hill, Erica Jong's Fanny is a wonderfully inventive, deliciously bawdy picaresque novel featuring an irrepressible heroine you won't soon forget In eighteenth-century England, life begins somewhat ignobly for Fanny Hackabout-Jones. Abandoned as an infant on the doorstep of Lord and Lady Bellars's grand Wiltshire manor, she contemplates the literary life as she grows to ripe young womanhood...

Bored with her marriage, a psychoanalyst's wife embarks on a wild, life-changing affair After five years, Isadora Wing has come to a crossroads in her marriage: Should she and her husband stay together or get divorced? Accompanying her husband to an analysts' conference in Vienna, she ditches him and strikes out on her own, crisscrossing Europe in search of a man who can inspire uninhibited passion. But, as she comes to learn, liberation and happiness...

A courageous and enthralling collection of poems by Fear of Flying author Erica Jong celebrating life, art, sex, and womanhood seven lives, then we become light . . . Erica Jong's novels are fearless and passionate. So, too, is her poetry. Though renowned-and sometimes vilified-for her unabashedly sensual fiction, the author considers herself a poet first and foremost. "It was my poetry," Jong writes, "that kept me sane, that kept me whole, that...

This mesmerizing saga of modern womanhood and the heroic struggle for freedom is vividly brought to life through four generations of remarkable mothers and daughters. In the year 2005, Sarah finds herself drawn into the tumultuous lives of her unconventional ancestors. Spanning a hundred years, she calls to memory her great-grandmother Sarah, propelled by a Russian pogrom to America in 1906; her grandmother Salome, who cavorted with Henry Miller in...