Fear of Fifty by Erica Jong

Fear of Fifty by Erica Jong is a 325-page hardcover published in 1994 by HarperCollins Publishers as is a stated first edition.  There is some old sticker residue to the front of the dust jacket.  Inside, the pages are clean and unmarked.There is a black remainder mark along the bottom outside page edges. Book Summary A publishing event, a real-life novel, Fear of Fifty is the true story of the woman who 20 years ago showed her generation how to soar in Fear of Flying and now looks back--and ahead--to assess the costs, the rewards, and the meaning of the journey. Opening on her 50th birthday, Erica Jong's midlife memoir read like fast-paced fiction as it flashes back and forth in time to tell at last the truths at the heart of her novels. Poet, novelist, essayist, Jong has forged one of the most visible, and volatile, careers in American letters, and as a charter member of what she calls the "whiplash generation," she has had a front-row seat on the roller coaster American women have b