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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...
...interjecting conversation between Sand and Wing throughout the story, Jong claims she will show the reader the process of writing the novel, the struggle between author and subject when the story becomes as real for the writer as her life...
...conversations between Wing and Sand become less a way to show the process of writing a story than a means for saving the story. When the chapters full of Alcoholics Anonymous rhetoric overwhelm and the words "fuck" and "cock" appear for the thousandth time, Wing interrupts and asks Sand if this isn't all a little ridiculous. Sand reminds her that life is ridiculous and that trying to turn reality into a novel cannot alter the excesses of life...
...book proposes to detail Sand's quest for self-fulfillment, but Jong sets up an unrealistic dichotomy between self-love and romantic love, making the former emotional and the latter purely orgasmic. The men she loves don't love her, but they do give her multiple orgasms--they take her to Henry Miller's infamous "Land of Fuck...
When I interviewed Hochschild, she said that barriers that appear to be made of concrete are really made of sand. Envisioning "pro-family" changes in the American economy, she thinks more men will begin to share housework fairly and rationally...