![]() "One of them wants to be her personal slave. In scenes both serious and hilariously funny, Vanessa meets a parade of "meshugenahs," Jong says. ![]() So, in a sly nod to Jong's first book, Vanessa signs up for a sex website called. Read an excerpt from Erica Jong's "Fear of Dying".Sex was for twenty, thirty, forty, even fifty. We were supposed to become grandmothers and retreat into serene sexlessness. at age 73, she's back with "Fear of Dying," this time about issues of vitality and mortality facing an aging former actress.Īs Jong told a rapt audience in suburban New Jersey, her heroine, Vanessa Wonderman, must cope with aging parents, an ailing husband, and her own intense sexual desire: "Women were not allowed to have passion at sixty. Well, actually, more than 27 million people DID read the book! And now, more than 40 years later. ![]()
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