Reviews
A passionate novel... the body wanting sex, sex, sex and love and safety, comfort; the mind wanting freedom, independence, the power to work.... wonderfully funny and sad, witty and agonizing, brilliant, sensual, serious., "A passionate novel . . . the body wanting sex, sex, sex and love and safety, comfort; the mind wanting freedom, independence, the power to work . . . wonderfully funny and sad, witty and agonizing, brilliant, sensual, serious."-Hannah Green "Belongs to and hilariously extends the tradition of Catcher in the Rye and Portnoy's Complaint . . . [F]earless and fresh, tender and exact . . ."-John Updike "The boundary-breaking novel that redefined sexuality."- O Magazine "The book that started it all by the woman who started it all."-Naomi Wolf "Extraordinary . . . at once wildly funny and very wise."- Los Angeles Times, One of NPR's "Best Books of 2013" " The first true loss of intimacy, security, and love in a woman's life typically brings her face to face with the terror of being alone: She must endure the insane pounding heart and not go mad. This is what Erica Jong's classic novel Fear of Flying is really all about: being snipped from the emotional strings that tie you to a man, going into free fall, and, perhaps, learning to fly."-- BookForum "A passionate novel... the body wanting sex, sex, sex and love and safety, comfort; the mind wanting freedom, independence, the power to work.... wonderfully funny and sad, witty and agonizing, brilliant, sensual, serious" Hannah Green "Belongs to and hilariously extends the tradition of Catcher in the Rye and Portnoy's Complaint .... [F]earless and fresh, tender and exact... " John Updike "The boundary-breaking novel that redefined sexuality." O magazine "The book that started it all by the woman who started it all." Naomi Wolf "Extraordinary...at once wildly funny and very wise." -- Los Angeles Times, The first true loss of intimacy, security, and love in a woman's life typically brings her face to face with the terror of being alone: She must endure the insane pounding heart and not go mad. This is what Erica Jong's classic novel Fear of Flying is really all about: being snipped from the emotional strings that tie you to a man, going into free fall, and, perhaps, learning to fly., "A passionate novel... the body wanting sex, sex, sex and love and safety, comfort; the mind wanting freedom, independence, the power to work.... wonderfully funny and sad, witty and agonizing, brilliant, sensual, serious" Hannah Green "Belongs to and hilariously extends the tradition of Catcher in the Rye and Portnoy's Complaint .... [F]earless and fresh, tender and exact... " John Updike "The boundary-breaking novel that redefined sexuality." O magazine "The book that started it all by the woman who started it all." Naomi Wolf "Extraordinary...at once wildly funny and very wise." -- Los Angeles Times, " The first true loss of intimacy, security, and love in a woman's life typically brings her face to face with the terror of being alone: She must endure the insane pounding heart and not go mad. This is what Erica Jong's classic novel Fear of Flying is really all about: being snipped from the emotional strings that tie you to a man, going into free fall, and, perhaps, learning to fly."-- BookForum "A passionate novel... the body wanting sex, sex, sex and love and safety, comfort; the mind wanting freedom, independence, the power to work.... wonderfully funny and sad, witty and agonizing, brilliant, sensual, serious" Hannah Green "Belongs to and hilariously extends the tradition of Catcher in the Rye and Portnoy's Complaint .... [F]earless and fresh, tender and exact... " John Updike "The boundary-breaking novel that redefined sexuality." O magazine "The book that started it all by the woman who started it all." Naomi Wolf "Extraordinary...at once wildly funny and very wise." -- Los Angeles Times, Belongs to and hilariously extends the tradition of Catcher in the Rye and Portnoy's Complaint .... [F]earless and fresh, tender and exact..., "The first true loss of intimacy, security, and love in a woman's life typically brings her face to face with the terror of being alone: She must endure the insane pounding heart and not go mad. This is what Erica Jong's classic novel Fear of Flying is really all about: being snipped from the emotional strings that tie you to a man, going into free fall, and, perhaps, learning to fly." -- BookForum "A passionate novel... the body wanting sex, sex, sex and love and safety, comfort; the mind wanting freedom, independence, the power to work.... wonderfully funny and sad, witty and agonizing, brilliant, sensual, serious." --Hannah Green "Belongs to and hilariously extends the tradition of Catcher in the Rye and Portnoy's Complaint .... [F]earless and fresh, tender and exact..." -- John Updike "The boundary-breaking novel that redefined sexuality." -- O magazine "The book that started it all by the woman who started it all." -- Naomi Wolf "Extraordinary...at once wildly funny and very wise." -- Los Angeles Times
