Fear of Flying by Erica Jong – read the first chapter

‘There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I’d been treated by at least six of them’: so opens Erica Jong’s iconic feminist 1973 novel Fear of Flying, famous for its unflinching depiction of female sexuality. Jong’s book is back in the conversation after being serialised on BBC Radio 4

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

—Anonymous (a woman)

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