"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.

An all-star roster of self-help authors, including Iyanla Vanzant, Richard Carlson, Ram Dass, and Bernie Siegel, come together to instruct listeners how to embrace--rather than bemoan--the aging process, as old perceptions of time and age evolve as our culture comes to terms with a whole new definition of longevity and vibrant old age. Read by the authors. Original.

Product Description: Erica Jong's two rules of writing are "never cut funny" and "keep the pages turning." And Jong delivers in these twenty-six essays, coupling frank and risqu? stories about her own life with provocative pieces on her passion for politics, literature, Italy, and-yes-sex...read more

Product Description: Erica Jong's memoir-a national bestseller-was probably the most wildly reviewed book of 2006. Critics called it everything from "brutally funny," "risqu? and wonderfully unrepentant," and "rowdy, self-deprecating, and endearing" to "a car wreck...read more

Product Description: Any Woman's Blues, first published in 1990, is a tale of addiction and narcissism-the twin obsessions of ourage. World-famous folk singer Leila Sand emerged from the sixties and seventies with addictions to drugs and booze. Leila's latest addiction is to a younger man who leaves her sexually ecstatic but emotionally bereft...read more

When Henry Miller left America for Paris in the 1930s to lead the life of a literary bohemian, he called this death of his former existence and his resurrection as a writer a 'rosy crucifixion'. This work tells the story of the early days of Miller's second marriage, his impoverished life in New York and his first steps towards being a writer.

Frantically seeking antidotes to his dreary job and life 'in a morbidly respectable neighbourhood' with his wife Maude, Miller becomes obsessed with the promiscuous and mysterious Mara, dance hall hostess, femme fatale and pathological liar. This volume looks back in fictionalised form to Miller's America life in the 1920s.

The well-known author of Fear of Flying comments on some of the immense changes that her generation has faced, in such areas as dating, marriage, monogamy, lust, love, and sexual relations. Reprint.

Struggling with another divorce, single parenthood, and a string of unlikely suitors, Isadora Wing shares a passionate relationship with a handsome and privileged younger man, Berkeley Sproul III, and wonders about the sincerity of both of their intentions. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Isadora Wing is a compulsive daydreamer, seeker of saviours and fully-fledged phobic - as she travels to Vienna with her husband, jaunts around Europe with a Laingian analyst, and is forced to face her demons in this novel of liberation.

The author of Fear of Flying takes readers back 2,600 years to a fictional chronicle of the life of Sappho, one of the great unsung heroines of Greek literature, whose amorous adventures with both men and women were transformed into some of the most beautiful love poetry ever written. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

In prose and poetry, the witch is examined as historical reality and as archetype--Halloween hag, full-breasted seductress, natural healer, never without peer, scapegoat, and lingering vestige of a primeval religion--in a study that also features recipes for love potions, formulas for spells, incantations, and stunning full-color artwork. Reprint

Jessica Pruitt is one of Hollywood's most alluring and admired actresses, but her love life is a shambles, until, in Venice filming a movie of The Merchant of Venice, she is transported back in time to meet her soulmate, a young Will Shakespeare. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 13,000 first printing.

A novel of ancient Greece tells the story of the epic poet's journeys, loves, and losses.

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The author chronicles the life of Henry Miller, drawing on her own six-year friendship with him, as well as his works and correspondence, to discuss Miller's life and writing

A kaleidoscopic collection of Erica Jong's provocative prose, covering politics, pornography, motherhood and writing, with turns from Hillary Rodham Clinton, Lolita, Princess Diana and Louise Woodward. It surfs the waves of feminism from the bold ancestors to the modern truce between the sexes.