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A sexual odyssey in pursuit of secure attachment, Jun 20 2010
Erica Jong takes us on an intrapsychic merry-go-round as her heroine searches for the right blend of sexual satisfaction, secure attachment and love. Her lusty odyssey is tempered by her self-deprecating humour and ambivalent relationships with psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts.
This book remains a groundbreaking classic and opens our eyes to the progression of feminine sensibility.
Alan Eppel author of "Sweet Sorrow: Love, Loss and Attachment in Human Life".
Sweet Sorrow: Love, Loss and Attachment in Human Life
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**Life-Changing For Me**, May 28 2004
Browsing the bookstore the other day, I came across a new edition of this & realized it's been THIRTY years since this book was published! (Actually thirty one.)
I read this book about ten years ago. I was 18 at the time & from then on, greedily read all her novels (and poems) ever published. Jong taught me not to be ashamed of my sexuality, but to embrace being a woman and to go after what you want. At that time, I was conflicted, mainly because I was feeling so "open", but yet felt I should not venture out of my normal "good girl Baptist upbringing". I read her novels in secret, afraid of what others would think of me. Not long after this very book, I started to bloom into what was being stifled inside me all long.
I can now say that I am happily married with two young boys. I let myself roam freely & basically went after what I wanted & needed. I know that through that discovery is how I found my soulmate & developed love with all the sparks, too.
Take the time & read this classic & all her others. Keep an open mind & enjoy. My favorite thing about Jong is that she simply says all the "dirty" & "not-so-nice" things we women think of all the time. Such liberation to read her work!
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This is an exceptional woman, April 24 2004
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Isadora is not representative of the masses of women; she is an exceptional woman: one that we all secretly want to be. She dares to live the desires that we all crave, and fear. She returns our humanity to us, our right to choose pleasure and the position on top. Men with short dividends, beware! This book will outlive the third millennium, as will Sappho. The book is utterly compelling; I read it from cover to cover six times before I could put it down. It is one book you won't want to miss! Erica Jong deserves the Nobel Prize for her pioneering work of rediscovering and defining the feminine soul.
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