And thanks to Betty Anne Clark, Anita Gross, Ruth Sullivan, Mimi Bailin, and Linda Bogin.

And thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts for a grant which helped. Thanks to my intrepid editors: Aaron Asher and Jennifer Josephy. “The Man Under the Bed” originally appeared in Fruits & Vegetables, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, © Erica Mann Jong 1968, 1970, 1971.įor Grace Darling Griffin And for my grandfather, Samuel Mirsky “The 8:29 to Frankfurt” by Erica Mann originally appeared in the Beloit Poetry Journal, Winter 68/69. AND AFTER THIS BOOK, THERE MAY NEVER BE A WAY BACK.”-Lois GOULDĪcknowledgments Chapter 12, “The Madman,” originally appeared in Ms. “SHE’LL TAKE YOU FARTHER FROM HOME THAN YOU EVER DREAMED YOU’D GO. “A FLAMBOYANT SEXUAL IMAGINATION!” -New York Timesįor every woman who ever dreamed of living her sexual fantasies … For every man who still believes women “don’t think like that” …įEAR OF FLYING “It is rare these days to come upon a book written by a woman which is so refreshing, so gay and sad at the same time, and so full of wisdom about the eternal man-woman problem.”-HENRY MILLER “THE MOST OUTRAGEOUSLY ENTERTAINING WOMEN’S LIBRETTO YET, lusty raw material served up by a new writer of great talent!”-Cosmopolitan “A BAWDY, SWAGGERING first novel of fine touches and insightful observations on sex and marriage.” -The Minneapolis Star “FOR AN EXHILARATING FUEL-BURNER, A BLAZE OF ONE-WOMAN ENERGY AND SEXUAL PLENTY, FEAR OF FLYING IS DEFINITELY A VEHICLE FOR EXCEEDING ALL LIMITS OF THE OPEN ROAD!” -Village Voice It is wonderfully funny and sad, witty and agonizing, brilliant, sensual, serious.”-HANNAH GREEN “The heroine is as sexy as Tom Jones and as outspoken about her sexuality as Portnoy was about his!” -Cleveland Plain Dealer ERICA JONG’S GLORIOUSLY WICKED, SEXY NOVEL ABOUT THE WAY THINGS OUGHT TO BE FOR A WOMAN …įEAR OF FLYING “A PASSIONATE NOVEL … the body wanting sex, sex, sex and love and safety, comfort the mind wanting freedom, independence, the power to work, to write … very alive and real.

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