Fear of Dying, Erica Jong
Fear of Dying, Erica Jong
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Fear of Dying

Author: Erica Jong

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Unabridged: 7 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/08/2015

Categories: Fiction, Women


Synopsis

“Flashy, flip, and hilarious as well as smart and wise.” –Booklist (starred review)Four decades ago, Erica Jong revolutionized the way we look at love, marriage, and sex. Her worldwide bestseller, Fear of Flying opened the doors for writers from Jennifer Weiner to Lena Dunham. Now she does it again by giving us a powerful, new perspective on the next phase of women’s lives. Full of the sly humor, deep wisdom and poignancy we know from her poetry, fiction, and essays, she delivers the novel women everywhere have been waiting for…FEAR OF DYINGAs the afternoon of life looms over Vanessa Wonderman, she watches her parents age, attends doctor appointments with her pregnant daughter, and sits by the hospital bed of her husband, Asher, twenty years her senior. With her best years as an actress behind her, she’s discovering that beginnings are easy but endings can be hard.Could her fountain-of-youth fantasies be fulfilled on Zipless.com? A site inspired by the writings of her best friend, Isadora Wing, it promises “no strings attached” encounters—and Vanessa is so restless that she’s willing to try anything.Fear of Dying is a daring and delightful look at what it really takes to be human and female in the twenty-first century. Wildly funny and searingly honest, it is a story for everyone who has ever been shaken and changed by love.“I loved Fear of Dying. I found it irreverent, funny, tender, and very wise, and it made me feel more alive.” –Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

About Erica Jong

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 27 million copies in forty languages) and Fear of Fifty. Ms. Jong is also the author of seven award-winning collections of poetry. Her latest, Love Comes First, was released by Tarcher-Penguin in January 2009. In addition, Jong has written several nonfiction books. Her work has appeared all over the world.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Esil on September 02, 2015

4 stars plus for some parts and 2 stars – perhaps less – for others. I haven’t read Fear of Flying or anything else by Erica Jong to compare it with, but I’m not sure what I just read. I feel like I read a long meditation – perhaps a thinly veiled autobiographical one – about aging and death. Someti......more

Goodreads review by da on November 26, 2017

With this, as with Fear of Flying, Jong sets up a not-entirely-likeable character who voices a lot of truths along with a bunch of annoying stuff. In this way, Jong portrays us all as we are, which is that we're all a mix of good and bad, smart and confounding. This book is worth the read for the to......more

Goodreads review by Julie on May 17, 2015

I am so glad to know that Erica Jong still has something to say to me. This book is probably not for everyone, but it will speak to midlife women. I highlighted more lines in this book than probably anything I've read this year. Vanessa Wonderman, a "happily married" actress turning 60, is trying to......more

Goodreads review by Mandy on October 30, 2015

This new novel from the acclaimed author of Fear of Flying doesn’t quite live up to expectations. Fear of Flying was such a ground-breaking work with its liberated and open attitude towards sex that I guess that revisiting old ideas was bound to be a let-down. Somehow I’d expected Erica Jong to have......more

Goodreads review by Melany on March 01, 2022

Not my go to type of book but was a decent read. The main character is very quirky and relatable. Had some sad sincere moments as well as some fun moments. The ending was beautiful.......more