Sappho's Leap: A Novel (Jong, Erica) - Hardcover

Jong, Erica

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393057615 ISBN 13: 9780393057614

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 2003

Synopsis

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Signed and inscribed by the author ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 316 pages; Description: xix, 316 p. : maps (on end papers) ; 25 cm. Subjects: Sappho --Greeks --Egypt --Women poets --Greece --History --To 146 B.C. --Lesbos Island (Greece) --Egypt --Fiction

About this title

Review:

"Jong's warm-blooded Sappho...is a champion of squirmy physicality, epic love and--best of all--heroic nonconformity."

Read "Sappho's Leap". It will give you a lot of fresh new ideas about life, love, and sex. "

I've been a grateful reader of her rich and varied work for decades. But no book has excited and delighted me as much as "Sappho's Leap." --Jay Parini"

Read "Sappho's Leap." It will give you a lot of fresh new ideas about life, love, and sex. "

What a romp, what fun, what good sex, what a pleasure it is to read "Sappho." Who would think that the distant dim classical world could be transformed into such a startling adventure...? --Anne Roiphe"

Jong's warm-blooded Sappho...is a champion of squirmy physicality, epic love and best of all heroic nonconformity."

If Odysseus had been a woman, this is the journey he might have taken.--Susan Cheever

About the Author:

Erica Jong is the author of eight novels-including Fear of Flying-six books of poetry, and several works of nonfiction. She lives in New York City and Connecticut.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0393057615
• ISBN 13: 9780393057614
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320