![]() Jong has published more than 20 books, including a series of novels featuring Wing and a 1998 collection of essays What Do Women Want, making her “a pillar of the sexual revolution and a hero to millions”, according to Canongate. Just acquired by Canongate in the UK, and St Martin’s Press in the US, with international publishers snapping up rights from Taiwan to Denmark, Fear of Dying is one of the hottest properties at the international publishing event. ![]() The new book promises to address “what it really takes to be human and female in the 21st century” and has been a major hit at this week’s London book fair. More than 40 years after Erica Jong coined the term “zipless fuck” in Fear of Flying, her feminist novel of a young woman’s quest for sex with no strings attached, its heroine Isadora Wing is set to return in Fear of Dying. ![]()
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