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Article: Erica Jong Reaches Midlife With Fierce, Brave Memoir
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- July 24, 1994
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Fear of Fifty By Erica Jong.
HarperCollins. $24.
`Freedom is a loose leash, a license to be different from your
mother and still be loved." So says Erica Jong in her midlife
memoir, Fear of Fifty. With a blend of gutsiness and unexpected
lyricism, she examines her journey and the costs, rewards and meaning
it has brought to her life and her writing.
While many readers may be unfamiliar with Jong's revelatory
poetry, many more will recall "the Zipless F - - -," a phrase
immortalized by Isadora Wing, the heroine of her celebrated first
novel, Fear of Flying. A ground-breaking exploration of a woman's
sexual and erotic potential, the novel was Jong's attempt (with
Isadora as her barely ...