Erica Jong is a poet, novelist, and essayist, best known for her eight New York Times bestselling novels, including Fear of Flying (which has sold twenty-seven million copies in more than forty languages) and Fear of Fifty. Her work has appeared all over the world.
A hymn to love
*FAY WELDON*
This bold, soaring novel tackles the big stuff
* * Harper’s Bazaar * *
Erica Jong is back - as fearless as ever
* * Washington Post * *
It made me feel more alive
*RACHEL JOYCE*
Vividly written
* * The Times * *
It's going to happen to all of us and yet talking about it seems
taboo. Just as she once ripped the lace modesty vest off sex, Erica
Jong has now exposed death in all its immodesty
* * author of Lace * *
Trailblazing in its own right
* * Time Magazine * *
A wise, warm, witty take on the taboo that replaced sex
* * Daily Mail * *
How she was able to deal with all these sensitive issues and still
make the book funny is amazing. I loved reading it
*WOODY ALLEN*
Erica Jong has done it again! Fear of Dying is a big, bawdy,
beautifully-written romp through online hookups, female
friendships, children grappling with adulthood and parents
negotiating with death. Fear of Dying is big, warm-hearted,
generous book that will satisfy Jong's longtime fans and delight
her new readers
*JENNIFER WEINER*
Moving and deeply poetic, Fear of Dying is a compelling novel that
truly understands the process of aging. With astonishing images on
every page, Erica Jong gives us a veiled spiritual autobiography
with an unstoppable quality, a narrative momentum that held me from
first to last as it seamlessly unfolds from Jong's previous work,
yet with sharp new edge, giving us a wise book, a book to
savour
*JAY PARINI*
Erica Jong has written a whip-smart, insightful, hilarious and
ridiculously relatable new novel . . . Destined to be called an
instant classic, I could not put this stunning book down. In 1973,
Fear of Flying was the book we needed, now the book we need is Fear
of Dying
*JULIE KLAM*
Erica Jong fans, rejoice! Her new novel, the cleverly and aptly
titled Fear of Dying, is a truth-teller's dream. In it, Jong and
her alter egos face life's most difficult challenges, head on and
all at once. As the great poet William Butler Yeats wrote, "the
only two things worth writing about are sex and death," and in Fear
of Dying, Jong takes on both. Along the way, she also tells the
story of a marriage that grows happier despite all. This wise book,
written in prose gorgeous enough to make one swoon, will delight
and enrich the lives of everyone who reads it
*ROSEMARY DANIELL*
Fear of Dying is the perfect spirited, funny bookend to Erica
Jong's classic Fear of Flying. In this lighthearted, sexy and wise
romp of a novel, Jong explores some deep truths about aging,
family, love and marriage after sixty. This novel is a wonderful,
readable blend of entertainment and wisdom. I loved it!
*Susan Cheever*
When I interviewed Jong 40 years ago, she called Fear of Flying "a
declaration of independence". With its feisty violation of the
verbal and sexual taboos of women's writing, and insistence that
female artists should have all the freedom of male artists, "it was
a counterphobic book". Fear of Dying is counterphobic too . . . a
literary Joan Rivers . . . Jong has turned the page, and as a
writer she still has a lot to say
* * Guardian * *
For young women of my generation, the story of Isadora Wing and her
search for no-strings, satisfying sex was daring and startling and
wonderful. It was like, "I am not the only woman who has fantasies
- sexual or otherwise". When I met Erica Jong, not long after the
book was published, I couldn't even speak because I was so in
awe
* * Elle, on FEAR OF FLYING * *
Transcends being a woman's book and becomes a latter-day Ulysses,
with a female Bloom stumbling and groping, but surviving
* * Wall Street Journal * *
Sometimes poignant, Fear of Dying left me with a sense of relaxed
cheer . . . Even in her 70s, Jong remains the brash, randy
adventurer whose work curs of the world may piss on, but who isn't
about to let that stop her. She has what she was looking for many
decades ago, the Chaucerian lust and joy of April's eternal shoures
soote
* * The Atlantic * *
This is the novel as hall of mirrors: a piece of literary
self-analysis and celebrity self-mythologisation, as well as a
first-person fiction about a woman facing old age and parental
decline . . . Jong does write bravely and boldly about parental
loss, about sex in marriage, and about almost giving up on
something and then deciding not to
* * Independent * *
In some ways the irrepressible Jong is just an old-fashioned girl
for whom love and sex can never be entirely separated. As for the
rest of us, we have to find our own sexual path. Thanks to
outspoken Erica and others of her ilk, we can do so in the
knowledge that sexagenarian sexuality is a celebration of life
rather than a shameful secret
* * Daily Telegraph * *
Taps into a profound phenomenon of our times: never before has
there been such a vast sea of older people (especially women)
yearning for and usually gaining their freedom and independence,
still in good nick and looking forward to many more years of life,
love and, yes, bedroom frolics
* * Daily Express * *
Fear of Dying, with its twin themes of ageing and mortality, gently
satirises the fact that the sex lives of the middle-aged are now
fair game for multinational corporations
* * Observer * *
Defies the sunset of sex
* * New York Times * *
Hilariously undaunted . . . refreshingly smutty and emotionally
warm, it boldly explores late-life sexual adventure and longing,
highlighting the intricate, often difficult relationship between
sex, love and death
* * Sunday Telegraph * *
Jong taps into a wider revolution in older women's lives . . . Fear
of Dying examines in minute detail every older woman's anxiety
about her body . . . Jong's creating a forum for discussion . . .
Older women were also avid readers of Fifty Shades of Grey. After
that, what else could shock? Only Erica Jong
* * The Sunday Times * *
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