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Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying has a joyful abandon rarely found in today’s sad girl novels

  • Written by Kath Kenny, Sessional academic, Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature, Macquarie University

In our feminist classics series, we look at influential books.

Fear of Flying, Erica Jong’s 1973 blockbuster novel, begins with an ingenious opening line.

There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I’d been treated by at least six of them.

In those 21 words Jong introduces her book’s droll, wisecracking tone,...

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