New Releases by Erica Jong

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.

Affrontare i cinquant’anni: come indicare a una generazione di donne la strada da percorrere? Erica Jong lo fa con l’unica risposta possibile: la storia della sua vita. Dall’emancipazione da una famiglia soffocante alle battaglie per difendere i propri diritti fino ai retroscena del grande successo di Paura di volare. E poi i quattro matrimoni, gli uomini conosciuti, amati e abbandonati. Elegantemente in bilico tra confessione, romanzo e manifesto, Erica Jong rilegge con lucidità implacabile gli eventi che l’hanno formata come donna e come scrittrice, affrontando la conclamata ed esorcizzata paura della mezza età. Pubblicato nel 1994 e divenuto un best seller internazionale, Paura dei cinquanta ha riacceso il dibattito sull’identità femminile messa alla prova dal passare del tempo. Ancora oggi ci mostra come si può guardare alla seconda parte della propria vita con la stessa intrepida fierezza della gioventù, ma con maggiore intelligenza, equanimità e affetto.

Celebrating life

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.

Prima di Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City e di Anastasia Steele in Cinquanta sfumatura di grigio, c''era Isadora Wing, la protagonista disinibita ed esplicita del romanzo rivoluzionario di Erica Jong. Pubblicato per la prima volta negli Stati Uniti nel 1973, Paura di volare ha destato da subito scalpore, alimentando le fantasie dei lettori e infiammando il dibattito sul sesso e le donne. John Updike ha scritto che Isadora Wing "riserva al corpo maschile più parole gentili di ogni altro autore dai tempi di Fanny Hill". Il racconto esuberante e sincero delle avventure – e disavventure – sessuali di Isadora, con le sue osservazioni penetranti su matrimonio, maternità e ambizione, continua oggi a provocare e ispirare, restando un''icona della scoperta di sé e dell''emancipazione femminile.

Sensationele literaire klassieker: meer dan 27 miljoen exemplaren verkocht Isadora Wing vult haar dagen met poëzieschrijven, psychiaters bezoeken en dagdromen. Maar al te graag fantaseert ze over snelle anonieme seks zonder strijd en zonder spijt. Als ze haar man vergezelt naar een conferentie in Wenen besluit ze haar seksuele fantasieën in de praktijk te brengen en ze begint een affaire met Adrian Goodlove. Door de affaire belandt Isadora in een zoektocht naar seks en plezier, maar ook naar zichzelf en naar bevrijding van heersende en in haar ogen bekrompen ideeën over vrouwen. ''Jongs heldin is een kind van haar tijd. De afterglow van de jaren zestig is op iedere bladzijde voelbaar'' - De Groende Amsterdammer ''Haar beschrijving van seks is eerlijk en soms ontluisterend'' - Trouw ''Isadora Wing... bevrijdt zichzelf van haar remmingen en krijgt daar behalve uitbundig beschreven seksueel genot erg veel voor terug'' - Elsbeth Etty in NRC Handelsblad

DIVDIVFearless, iconic poet, novelist, and feminist Erica Jong offers a fascinating in-depth appreciation of the controversial life and work of American literary giant Henry Miller/divDIV Henry Miller (Tropic of Cancer) and Erica Jong (Fear of Flying) are true literary soul mates. Both authors have been, in equal measure, lauded for their creative genius and maligned for their frank treatment of human sexuality. So who better than Erica Jong to offer an expert appraisal and appreciation of Henry Miller, the man and his art?/divDIV At once a critical study, a biography, a memoir of a remarkable friendship, and a celebration of the life and work of the author whom Erica Jong compares to Whitman, The Devil at Large explores the peaks and valleys of Miller’s storied writing career. It examines his tumultuous relationships—including his doomed marriage to June Mansfield and his lifelong tenuous bond with his mother—and confirms his standing as a creative genius. /divDIV Jong, a renowned feminist, courageously answers critics who accuse her subject of degrading women in his fiction, suggesting instead that he sought to demystify them by means of the “violent verbal magic of his books.” With grace, wit, warmth, and intelligence, Jong brings readers close to the man and his writing. There has never been a more incisive and insightful analysis of this exceptional American master./divDIV This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erica Jong including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection./divDIV/div/div

DIVDIVA courageous and enthralling collection of poems by Fear of Flying author Erica Jong celebrating life, art, sex, and womanhood/divDIV seven lives,/divDIVthen we/divDIVbecome light . . ./divDIV 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 kept me alive.”/divDIV Becoming Light contains poems personally selected by Jong from her complete oeuvre of acclaimed published works—poems of love, sex, witches, gods, and demons; word-songs brimming with wit, heart, bitterness, sorrow, and truth. From the earliest poetic musings of a brilliant young artist first trying out her wings to later works born of experience and maturity, unpublished before appearing in this collection, Jong’s pure artistry shines like a beacon as she writes, fearlessly and passionately, about being a woman, about being alive./divDIV This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erica Jong including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection./divDIV/div/div

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:

Charlotte Brontë’s romantic gothic novel, featuring one of literature’s most memorable heroines. With her 1847 novel, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë created one of the most unforgettable heroines of all time. Jane Eyre is an orphan, penniless and plain, but full of courage and spirit. She has endured incredible hardship to secure her humble status as a governess in the household of her brooding employer, Mr. Rochester. Jane’s sharp wit and defiant nature meet with Rochester’s sardonic temperament. The two become enmeshed in a deep, intense bond. But Rochester has a terrible secret—a remnant from his past that could threaten any hope of happiness with his only love. An unconventional love story that broadened the scope of romantic fiction, Jane Eyre is ultimately the tale of one woman’s fight to claim her independence and self-respect in a society that has no place for her. With an Introduction by Erica Jong and an Afterword by Marcelle Clements

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.

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, Italy, and-yes-sex. Originally published in 1998, this updated edition features four new essays. What Do Women Want? offers a startlingly original look at where women are-and where they need to be in the twenty-first century: Are women better off today than they were twenty-five years ago? Has burning pre-nup agreements become the new peak of romance? Why do our greatest women writers too often get dissed and overlooked? Why do powerful women scare men? And who is the perfect man? How does the mother-daughter relationship influence cycles of feminism and backlash? Will Hillary become president? What is sexy?

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."* Throughout her book tour, Jong was unflappably funny, and responded to her critics with a hilarious essay on NPR''s All Things Considered, which is included in this paperback edition. In addition to prominent review and feature coverage, Jong was a guest on Today and Real Time with Bill Maher. Even Rush Limbaugh flirted with Jong on his radio program: "I think she wants me. I think she''s fantasizing about me." Love her, hate her, Jong still knows how to seduce the country and, most important, keep the pages turning.

Any Woman''s Blues, first published in 1990, is a tale of addiction and narcissism-the twin obsessions of ourage. 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 erotic gondola rides.

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."

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: an unorthodox rabbi, a poetic disc jockey, the son of a famous sex therapist, and WASPily handsomest of all: Berkeley Sproul III. Isadora and Berkeley meet at a health club, and he''s fourteen years her junior. Of course their affair is tortuous and sexy, but is it love? Or does the stud just want a free trip to Venice, compliments of a famous author? Either way, Erica Jong wrote this romance with "a mixture of eloquence and savage wit as good as anything she has ever written," said The Wall Street Journal.

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.

A novel of ancient Greece tells the story of the epic poet''s journeys, loves, and losses.

"Jong . . . filled a gap in the great tradition of the picaresque novel. . . . Linguistically, "Fanny" is a tower of strength. . . . Jong has gone farther than Joyce."--Anthony Burgess, "Saturday Review."

When Jessica Pruitt arrives in Venice to star in a film based on "The Merchant of Venice," she wanders through an old Jewish ghetto and is magically transported to 16th-century Venice where she finds herself the heroine of "Will" Shakespeare''s play.

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.