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Jong, Erica.
Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Fear of fifty : a midlife memoir /
Erica
Jong
.
by
Jong
,
Erica
.
HarperCollins, c1994.
Call #:
921 J79f
Subjects
Jong
,
Erica
.
Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781585425242
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xxvi, 325 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"Opening on her fiftieth birthday,
Erica
Jong
's midlife memoir reads like fast-paced fiction as it flashes back and forth in time to tell at last the truths at the heart of her novels. Poet, novelist, essayist,
Jong
has forged one of the most visible, and volatile, careers in American letters, and as a charter member of what she calls the "whiplash generation," she has had a front seat on the roller coaster American women have been riding for the past decades. Raised to be Doris Day, growing up wanting to be Gloria Steinem, now rearing daughters in the age of Princess Di and Madonna, today's women have had their expectations raised and dashed and raised and dashed again, as they've watched themselves go in and out of style like hemlines. Now, as she and her contemporaries look for answers to the second half of their lives,
Jong
offers powerful, provocative insights into sex, marriage, and aging; feminism - past, present, and future; the writing life; motherhood and family; identity and love, loyalty and loss, drawn through the brilliant prism of her own experience."--BOOK JACKET. "In chapters such as "Fear of Fifty," "The Mad Lesbian in the Attic," "How I Got to Be the Second Sex," "How I Got to Be Jewish," "Fear of Fame," "Seducing the Muse," "Dona Juana Gets Smart," "Becoming Venetian," and "How to Get Married,"
Erica
Jong
takes readers on an impassioned, outrageous, irreverent tour de force through the sea changes that have defined a generation. From technical virginity to the sexual revolution to the AIDS pandemic; from The Feminine Mystique to "political correctness"; from monogamy to open marriage and back again; from stay-at-home moms to moms who have won the right to be eternally exhausted; from sexual secrecy to sexual openness -
Jong
proves yet again her unique ability to tap into the inner lives of women and the issues that matter most to them."--BOOK JACKET.
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Memoirs.
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