Isadora wing6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() JOANNE BARKAN Friends (1970) and Necessary Objects (1972), Alix Kates Shulman's Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (1972), and Marge Piercy's Small Changes (1973). Dissent University of Pennsylvania Press But what about all those other longings which after a while marriage did nothing much to appease? ![]() It was necessary to have one best friend in a hostile world, one person you'd be loyal to no matter what, one person who'd always be loyal to you. Take, for example, what the heroine-Isadora Wing-has to say about marriage (all quotations from the New American Library edition, 2003): I was not against marriage. But Fear of Flying stood out it caused a singular commotion at the time-for some, as a historic breakthrough in what women could write about and, perhaps more important, how they could say it for others, as a particularly repugnant example of collapsing moral standards in America. Fear of Flying was reviewed by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in the New York Times (November 6, 1973) together with Jane Howard's A Different Woman and by Michael Wood in the New York Review of Books (March 21, 1974) with Barbara Raskin's Loose Ends and Grace Paley's Enormous Changes at the Last Minute. ![]() (Ms.)reading Erica Jong's Fear of Flying (Ms.)reading Erica Jong's Fear of Flying ![]()
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