Fear of Fifty (54 page)

Parachutes & Kisses
An Isadora Wing Novel

 

First published in 1984 and now back in print with a new afterword by the author, here is Erica Jong's “raunchy, funny, explicit, and outrageous” (
The New York Times
) celebration of the boy toy. Jong writes about boy-toy love with “a mixture of eloquence and savage wit as good as anything she has ever written,” said
The Wall Street Journal.

 

ISBN 1-58542-500-1
$14.95 ($19.50 CAN)

ERICA JONG is the author of twenty books of poetry, fiction, and memoir, including
Fear of Flying,
which has more than 18 million copies in print worldwide. Her most recent national bestseller,
Seducing the Demon,
has been described as “risqué and wonderfully unrepentant” (
Los Angeles Times
), “brutally funny” (
New York Post
), a “zesty, savvy, freewheeling memoir of the writing life” (
Kirkus Reviews
, starred review). Currently working on a novel featuring Isadora Wing—the heroine of
Fear of Flying—
as a woman of a certain age, Erica lives with her husband in New York City and Connecticut. Her daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, is also an author.