Erica Jong Boeken

Dertig jaar na 'Het ritsloze nummer' is Erica Jong terug met een grootse roman, 'Sappho's sprong', waarin zij de lezer 2600 jaar terugvoert in de tijd en in de huid kruipt van de beroemdste dichteres uit de geschiedenis: Sappho van Lesbos. Door Sappho op haar veertiende uit te huwelijken aan een oude, afstotelijke man, hoopt haar familie dat ze geen problemen meer zal veroorzaken. Niets is minder waar, want Sappho begint aan een reeks amoureuze avonturen die haar als een vrouwelijke Odysseus naar vele uithoeken van de wereld voert. Ze is onbevreesd, uitbundig en hartstochtelijk: een onvergetelijke heldin.

Bored with her marriage, a psychoanalyst’s wife embarks on a wild, life-changing affair After five years, Isadora Wing has come to a crossroads in her marriage: Should she and her husband stay together or get divorced? Accompanying her husband to an analysts’ conference in Vienna, she ditches him and strikes out on her own, crisscrossing Europe in search of a man who can inspire uninhibited passion. But, as she comes to learn, liberation and happiness are not necessarily the same thing. A literary sensation when first published in 1973, Fear of Flying established Erica Jong as one of her generation’s foremost voices on sex and feminism. Nearly four decades later, the novel has lost none of its insight, verve, or jaw-dropping wit.

An illustrated exploration of the world of witchcraft in which the author combines fact and fantasy in both poetry and prose.

Plexus is the second volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life work Exploring one man's desperate desire for freedom, Plexus is the central volume of Henry Miller's scandalous semi-autobiographical trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion. It finds him in the midst of his stormy marriage to the volatile, duplicitous Mona, and joyfully quitting his dreary job for a hand-to-mouth existence in Brooklyn, as he takes his first steps towards becoming a writer.

Nexus is the third volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life workThe exhilarating final volume of Henry Miller's semi-autobiographical trilogy, Nexus follows his last months in New York. Trapped in a bizarre ménage-à-trois with his fiery wife Mona and her lover Stasia, he finds his life descending into chaos. Finally, betrayed and exhausted, he decides to leave America and sail for Paris, to discover his true vocation as a writer.

Spanning one hundred years, this novel charts the history of four generations of a Jewish family in America.

With her characteristic wit and her refreshing refusal to bow down before political correctness, Erica Jong tackles these and other issues.

Fear of Flying has sold over 26 million copies worldwide. It's a novel that has transcended place and time. Erica Jong is at the forefront of cultural debate and about to grab the zeitgeist by the throat once more.

Discovered on the doorstep of a country estate in Wiltshire, England, the infant Fanny is raised to womanhood by her adoptive parents, Lord and Lady Bellars. Fanny wants to become the epic poet of the age, but her plans are dashed when she is ravished by her libertine stepfather. Fleeing to London, Fanny falls in with idealistic witches and highwaymen who teach her of worlds she never knew existed. After toiling in a London brothel that caters to literati, Fanny embarks on a series of adventures that teach her what she must know to live and prosper as a woman. Soon to be a major Broadway musical. Reading group guide included.