![]() ![]() Jong’s heroine, Isadora, surveying the “shy, shrinking, schizoid” array of women writers in English, asks, “Where was the female Chaucer?,” and the Wife of Bath, were she young and gorgeous, neurotic and Jewish, urban and contemporary, might have written like this. She sprinkles on the four-letter words as if women had invented them her cheerful sexual frankness brings a new flavor to female prose. Containing all the cracked eggs of the feminist litany, her soufflé rises with a poet’s afflatus. It has class and sass, brightness and bite. Photograph by Jakub Janele / ShutterstockĮrica Jong’s first novel, “Fear of Flying” (Holt, Rinehart & Winston), feels like a winner. ![]()
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