

Fear of Dying
Author: Erica Jong
Narrator: Suzanne Toren
Unabridged: 7 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 09/08/2015
Author: Erica Jong
Narrator: Suzanne Toren
Unabridged: 7 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 09/08/2015
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.
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
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
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
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