Article: Erica Jong Reaches Midlife With Fierce, Brave Memoir

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 ...

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