Parachutes & Kisses
An Isadora Wing Novel
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First published in 1984 and now back in print with a new afterword by the author, here is Erica Jong's “raunchy, funny, explicit, and outrageous” (
The New York Times
) celebration of the boy toy. Jong writes about boy-toy love with “a mixture of eloquence and savage wit as good as anything she has ever written,” said
The Wall Street Journal.
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ISBN 1-58542-500-1
$14.95 ($19.50 CAN)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ERICA JONG is the author of twenty books of poetry, fiction, and memoir, including
Fear of Flying,
which has more than 18 million copies in print worldwide. Her most recent national bestseller,
Seducing the Demon,
has been described as “risqué and wonderfully unrepentant” (
Los Angeles Times
), “brutally funny” (
New York Post
), a “zesty, savvy, freewheeling memoir of the writing life” (
Kirkus Reviews
, starred review). Currently working on a novel featuring Isadora Wingâthe heroine of
Fear of Flyingâ
as a woman of a certain age, Erica lives with her husband in New York City and Connecticut. Her daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, is also an author.
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A delectable Yiddish word that means bauble or knickknack.
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My husband, the lawyer, tells me that I am legally incorrect. “Whiplash generation” is really a “trademark,” quoth he. But I have lived my life according to the principle “Don't cut funny,” and ps are funnier than
ts.
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Yiddish; the mother tongue.
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Note to reviewer: I'm not comparing myself to Proust, but am I allowed to have read him?
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Artist-musician, but with a spin.
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Side curls worn by Orthodox Jews.
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Forbidden (i.e., unkosher) foods.
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“Woe to the father whose children are girls,” says the Talmud. I bless my father for having had the courage to flout this.
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The eponymous heroine of Story
of O.
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One wit calls them scrotum poles.