Word: jong
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plot of Erica Jong's new novel, Any Woman's Blues quite literally never gets out of bed. As the author herself says in the forward to the novel, "[It] is not for the prudish...It is throbbing and raw to a degree that will shock the most hardened libertine...
...Erica Jong...
...with herself, escaping her addictions to drugs, alcohol, sex and food, and learning that self-love is enough. But it is really a disturbing tale of leather and peignoirs, money, motorcycles and Georgia O'Keefe-like paintings, Alchoholics Anonymous and New York nightlife--material more befitting Jay McInerney than Jong...
...only thing that saves Any Woman's Blues from the junkpile of drugstore soft-core porn is Jong's reputation, the "men aren't everything" conclusion and a few stylistic tricks that make the book an interesting read...
...Jong writes the book with three different names. Caryl Fleishmann-Stanger writes the forward. Isadora Wing, the heroine of Jong's most famous novel Fear of Flying, writes the story itself and is given to recording, in the middle of narrative text, arbitrary conversations with Leila Sand, the novel's protagonist...