6/22/2023 0 Comments Zipless fear of flying![]() ![]() Jong got my attention with the Zipless Fk and so I stayed with her from there. But, as ever, there is no shortage of chutzpah and brio in the way she draws them. The fact that Henry Miller called Fear of Flying the feminine counterpart to my own Tropic of Cancer and predicted that this book will make literary. A literary sensation when it was first published, Fear of Flying. None of her conclusions is sensational: it’s no news that grandmothers have sex sometimes, that yoga is good for you or that watching your parents die makes you feel wretched for them and afraid for yourself. Turning her attention now to older women, she rehashes many of her own experiences of the past 10 years: the illness and death of parents, becoming a grandmother, the desire and the pressure to go on looking good, the continued need for physical intimacy. Compulsive daydreamer Isadora Wing doesnt want much - just to be free and to find the perfect, guiltless, zipless sexual encounter. ![]() While this might be a limiting quality in a novelist, many would argue passionately that she has illuminated women’s lives. As described by her - It is a sexual encounter between strangers that has the swift compression. The characters in her novels with whom we are asked to sympathise are all projections of her the rest are there for them to play off. A phrase coined by Erica Jong in the book Fear of Flying. ![]() Perhaps, but a man who divulged caustic secrets about his ex-lovers and family members for the sake of his career (even if that career is writing, for which Jong seems to think exceptions should be made) might also be thought to be acting in poor taste. ![]()
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