Fear of Flying
A woman leaves her husband mid-conference and goes looking for a self she can stand.
Isadora Wing goes to a psychoanalysts’ conference in Vienna with her second husband and leaves with another man, narrating her sexual history and her ambitions with a frankness that was genuinely shocking in 1973. The novel sold in the millions, gave the language a phrase Jong later tired of, and remains sharper about marriage and self-invention than its reputation as a scandal suggests.
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Isaac Butler
When I started reading Fear of Flying , I knew that it was a landmark feminist novel and that it was the subject of a congressional inquiry.
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