Any woman's blues

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With her groundbreaking ten-million-copy bestseller Fear of Flying, Erica Jong taught us how to fly. Now, with Any Woman's Blues, she shows us how to land.
Erica Jong has established a special rapport with her readers, who rely on her for her emotional honesty, probing insights, and delicious, informed wit. She dares to explore realms that other writers are afraid even to approach. In Any Woman's Blues, Jong deals with one of the most important and difficult subjects of our time: emotional addiction and codependency.
Leila Sand, artist, mother, and world-class celebrity, is Jong's most fuUy realized character since Isadora Wing. A true woman of her rimes, Leila came of age in the sixties and seventies as she sought escape and release in drugs, love affairs, fine wine, world travel—even marriage and motherhood. Now Leila is addicted to a younger man, the fatally handsome narcissist, D. V. "Dart" Donegal, who sends her into an orgasmic frenzy but leaves her... Tovább

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With her groundbreaking ten-million-copy bestseller Fear of Flying, Erica Jong taught us how to fly. Now, with Any Woman's Blues, she shows us how to land.
Erica Jong has established a special rapport with her readers, who rely on her for her emotional honesty, probing insights, and delicious, informed wit. She dares to explore realms that other writers are afraid even to approach. In Any Woman's Blues, Jong deals with one of the most important and difficult subjects of our time: emotional addiction and codependency.
Leila Sand, artist, mother, and world-class celebrity, is Jong's most fuUy realized character since Isadora Wing. A true woman of her rimes, Leila came of age in the sixties and seventies as she sought escape and release in drugs, love affairs, fine wine, world travel—even marriage and motherhood. Now Leila is addicted to a younger man, the fatally handsome narcissist, D. V. "Dart" Donegal, who sends her into an orgasmic frenzy but leaves her feeling empty, betrayed, and worthless. A woman who loves too much, she fears that giving up the ecstasy wiU mean losing her creative edge. But she is also afraid that if she doesn't do something to recover her sanity and grace she'll lose her hold on reality and slide into hopeless, self-destructive alcoholism.
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Leila's efForts to free herself from this quandary result in a sensual and spiritual odyssey that takes her from Alcoholics Anonymous meetings to violent performance art in a pitch-black East Village nightclub, from gUttering parties with SoHo celebrities, painters, art dealers, drug addicts, and "debutramps" to a liaison with a millionaire antique merchant, from unusual and bizarre entertainments in the parlor of Madame Dominatrix to erotic gondola rides with an irresistible Venetian casanova. Along the way, she leams the Rtdes of Love, the Twelve Steps, and the Key to Serenity.
Written with high energy and a great deal of heart, Any Woman's Blues will speak to every woman—and man—of the nineties.
One of our most influential writers, ERICA Jong is the author of Fear of Flying, How to Save Your Own Life, Fanny, Parachutes and Kisses, and Serenissima as weU as five volumes of poetry, a children's book, and a classic book about witches.
Erica Jong's writing has been praised by John Updike, Anthony Burgess, Margaret Atwood, Henry MiUer, and Marge Piercy. She and her husband and daughter divide their time between New York, Connecticut, and Vermont.
Jacket design © by Mike Stromberg Jacket illustration © by Greg Ragland Author photograph © by John Dugdale Vissza