Novel about isadora wing5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() But a coldness clings to their marriage, what therapists might call a “failure to communicate” and what Isadora suspects is Bennett’s way of “teaching me how to die.” Goodlove, meanwhile, has a beat-up Triumph and a “curled pink penis which tasted faintly of urine and refused to stand up in my mouth.” He whisks Isadora away on a two-and-a-half week drunken trip across Europe, promising to help her discover her soul in between banter about Freud vs. She has published two volumes of erotic poetry and loves Bennett (who is kind and makes “marvelous dipping and corkscrewing motions” in bed, as if “he had wings on his prick”). Isadora is hilariously neurotic, self-deprecating, professionally driven, and sensual. Jong’s quasi-memoir follows a Jewish American woman, Isadora Zelda White Stollerman Wing, who accompanies her analyst husband, Bennett, to Vienna and falls for a swinging British psychopath named (I am not joking) Adrian Goodlove. While intimacy with Isadora Wing is maintained, the reader accepts the value she puts on her own story: a reconciliation of the hunger at the poles of her being, a triumph, if precarious, over. ![]() It revolutionized how people thought about female desire-not as a single, predictable thing, nor as retreating or apologetic, but as multihued, contradictory, and insistent. In 1973 a writer named Erica Jong published a book called Fear of Flying. ![]()
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