Word: stanger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...employing such a variety of voices, Jong can tell the reader exactly what to think of the story. In the forward, for example, she uses Fleishmann-Stanger to give a "scholarly view" of the novel, telling us that "Any Woman's Blues is a fable for our times...