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Still flying, no longer fearful
Erica Jong’s famous (infamous?) novel “Fear of Flying” is getting some anniversary buzz in critical circles, all of it good — or at least better than what I think she got back when the book came out in 1973.
I just recently read the book … I was 13 when it came out, and for one reason or another I never caught up to it till middle age… I really, really liked it. The thing is compulsively readable, insightful into people in general (not just women) and spectacularly good fun, and in fact I had a hard time figuring out just what it was that made the book so darn controversial when it came out. Maybe it was just the age I was at the first reading, or that things have gotten so much nuttier since the days when it was first published, but really — sex seemed to be the least of what the novel was about.
Oh, well… Pick it up if you get a chance. It’s worth the time.
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