Erica Jong has 8 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 10 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is Fear of Flying.
Fear of Flying
Summary
Originally published in 1973, the groundbreaking, uninhibited story of Isadora Wing and her desire to fly free caused a national sensation. In The New York Times, Henry Miller compared it to his own classic, Tropic of Cancer and predicted that "this book will make literary history..." It has sold more than 12-million copies. Now, after 30 years, the revolutionary novel known as Fear of Flying still stands as a timeless tale of self-discovery, liberation, and womanhood.
©1973, 2001 Erica Mann Jong (P)2006 HarperCollins Publishers
Fear of Dying
Summary
The iconic, bestselling author delivers her first book in ten years - and the sequel to the groundbreaking novel, Fear of Flying. Fear of Dying is a hilarious, heart wrenching, and beautifully told story about what happens when one woman steps reluctantly into the afternoon of life. Vanessa Wonderman is a gorgeous former actress in her 60's who finds herself balancing between her dying parents, her aging husband and her beloved, pregnant daughter. Although Vanessa considers herself "a happily married woman," the lack of sex in her life makes her feel as if she's losing something too valuable to ignore. So she places an ad for sex on a site called Zipless.com and the life she knew begins to unravel. With the help and counsel of her best friend, Isadora Wing, Vanessa navigates the phishers and pishers, and starts to question if what she's looking for might be close at hand after all. Fear of Dying is a daring and delightful look at what it really takes to be human and female in the 21st century. Wildly funny and searingly honest, this is a book for everyone who has ever been shaken and changed by love.
©2015 Erica Jong (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.
Fear of Flying
Summary
The radio premiere of Erica Jong's uninhibited feminist classic about female sexuality.
Isadora Wing has been married to psychoanalyst Bennett for five years. But she has become restless and yearns for men, for solitude, and for the perfect guiltless, ‘zipless f--k’.
Having overcome her fear of flying to travel to a conference in Vienna with Bennett, she meets a charming Englishman called Adrian Goodlove. Can he offer the sexual liberation and fulfilment she's always fantasised about?
First published in 1973, this bold and bawdy novel about a young woman's quest for sexual liberation was a controversial best seller.
Warning: contains strong language from the start.
Cast:
Isadora Wing.....Julianna Jennings
Bennett Wing.....Kevin Shen
Adrian Goodlove.....Max Bennett
Isadora's mother.....Adie Allen
Marty.....Nick Underwood
Judy.....Nicola Ferguson
Dr Reuben.....Sargon Yelda
Dr Happe.....Brian Protheroe
Dramatised by Annie Caulfield
Directed by Emma Harding
©2018 BBC Worldwide Ltd (P)2018 BBC Worldwide Ltd
Holding Silvan
Summary
In the opening of Holding Silvan: A Brief Life, Monica Wesolowska gives birth to her first child, a healthy-seeming boy who is taken from her arms for "observation" when he won't stop crying. Within days, Monica and her husband have been given the grimmest of prognoses for Silvan, and they must make a choice about his life. The story that follows is not a story of typical maternal heroism. There is no medical miracle here. Instead, we find the strangest of hopes. Certain of her choice, Monica must still ask herself at every step if she is loving Silvan as well as a mother can. The result is a gripping testimony to the power of love. By raising ethical questions about how a death can be good in the age of modern medicine, Holding Silvan becomes a joyous paean to what makes life itself good. Whether you have suffered profound loss or not, this book will change your life.
©2013 Monica Wesolowska (P)2016 Monica Wesolowska
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected
Summary
Although she is most famous for her bestselling fiction, Erica Jong started her publishing career as a poet and has an international reputation for her verse. Becoming Light includes early poems previously uncollected in book form, selections from her previous books and many new poems. Erica Jong's poetry exhibits her rare gifts for inventiveness, wit, vigor, honesty and accessibility. Critics have generously praised Jong's unique poetic voice.
©1992 Erica Jong (P)2009 Phoenix
Sappho's Leap
Summary
Fearless and unrestrained, Sappho is Erica Jong's most unforgettable heroine. Sappho's Leap is a journey back 2,600 years into the heart and mind of the greatest romantic poet the world has ever known. At the age of 14, Sappho is seduced by the beautiful poet Alcaeus and plots with him to overthrow the dictator of their island. Sappho is caught and married off to a repellent older man in hopes that marriage will cause her to behave. Instead, it leads to a series of amorous adventures with both men and women, taking her from Delphi to Egypt, to the Land of the Amazons and the realm of Hades. Erica Jong, with her unique grasp of the mercurial wonders of sex and love, has found the perfect subject for a witty and sensuous tale of a woman ahead of her time. A generation of listeners who have formed alliances with Jong's past heroines will be newly enchanted by her re-creation of the immortal poet.
©2003 Erica Jong (P)2003, 2016 New Millennium Entertainment, Phoenix Books
Fanny
Summary
Discovered on the doorstep of a country estate in Wiltshire, England, the infant Fanny is raised to womanhood by her adoptive parents, Lord and Lady Bellars. Fanny wants to become the epic poet of the age, but her plans are dashed when she is ravished by her libertine stepfather. Fleeing to London, Fanny falls in with idealistic witches and highwaymen who teach her of worlds she never knew existed. After toiling in a London brothel that caters to literati, Fanny embarks on a series of adventures that teach her what she must know to live and prosper as a woman. Soon to be a major Broadway musical.
©2003 Erica Jong (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Fear of Fifty
Summary
In a powerful treatise on the politics of gender, age, sexuality, and feminism, the author of Fear of Flying speaks to the generation of women who, as she did, fought the battles of the past three decades, and are now searching for answers to the second half of their lives.
©1997 Erica Jong (P)1994 Phoenix Books