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 of sharks, knaves, fools - and one real lover.
Erica Jong is the author of nineteen books of poetry, fiction, and memoir, including
Fear of Flying, which has more than 18 million copies in print worldwide. Her most recent essays have appeared in
The New York Times Book Review, and she is a frequent guest on television talk shows. Currently working on a novel featuring Isadora Wing the heroine of
Fear of Flying as a woman of a certain age, Erica and her lawyer husband live in New York City and Connecticut. Her daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, is also an author.
Erica Jong left a Ph.D. program at Columbia to write her ground-breaking novel Fear of Flying, published in 1973. Jong is the author of numerous award-winning books of poetry and novels including Fanny, How to Save Your Own Life, Parachutes and Kisses, Any Woman s Blues, and the forthcoming Sappho s Leap. She is also the author of the memoir Fear of Fifty. She lives in New York City and Connecticut.
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