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Signet reissue edition 1996 Click here for two new editions Published originally in hardcover by Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1973 "A passionate novel... the
body wanting sex, sex, sex and love and safety, comfort;
the mind wanting freedom, independence, the power to
work, to write... very alive and real. It is wonderfully
funny and sad, witty and agonizing, brilliant, sensual,
serious" "It is rare these days to come
upon a book written by a woman which is so refreshing, so
gay an sad at the same time, and so full of wisdom about
the eternal man-woman problem" "This book will make literary
history...because of it women are going to find their own
voice and give us great sagas of sex, life, joy, and
adventure." "Transcends being a woman's book and becomes
a latter-day Ulysses, with a female Bloom stumbling and
groping, but surviving." Fear of Flying is the story of Isadora Wing, one of the most hilarious and touching anti- heroines to ever appear in fiction. A compulsive daydreamer, a seeker of saviors and psychiatrists, the author of a book of supposedly erotic poems, and a full-fledged phobic who fears flying but will not allow that fear to keep her off planes, Isadora relates her adventures and misadventures with wit, exuberance, and the sort of absolute candor that for centuries was permitted only to men. On a trip to Vienna to attend a psycholanalytic congress with her psychiatrist husband, she meets an uninhibited Laingian analyst who seems the embodiment of all her steamiest fantasies. He lures her away from her husband on an existential jaunt across Europe, sleeping by roadsides, changing partners with people met at campsites, re-evaluating her life in some painful and funny ways. But the trip proves to be a journey backward in time as well as a reshuffle of the present.. Though Isadora fears flying (in all possible senses of the word), she forces herself to keep traveling, to risk her marriage and her life is pursuit of her own brand of liberation. How she finds it and loses her fear is what Fear of Flying is all about. There are over 6.5 million copies of Fear of Flying in print in the U.S. alone. Around the world there are 12.5 million copies in print in 27 languages. Order this book from Amazon.com
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