Inventing Memory

Jong, Erica

ISBN 10: 078711457X ISBN 13: 9780787114572

Publisher: Dove Entertainment Inc, 1997

Synopsis

Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters is the epic of a Jewish family in America, told through the stories of four generations of women from the turn of the last century to the early years of the 21st century. Simultaneous hardcover release from HarperCollins. 4 cassettes.

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From the Publisher:

This is rich material, brimming with trenchant observation about the eternal man-woman thing. There are also some luscious secondary characters, like the Irish picture fakers Filet and Cooney, who insist on pronouncing

About the Author:

Erica Jong is the author of nineteen books of poetry, fiction, and memoir, including Fear of Flying, which has more than 18 million copies in print worldwide. Her most recent essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, and she is a frequent guest on television talk shows. Currently working on a novel featuring Isadora Wing—the heroine of Fear of Flying—as a woman of a certain age, Erica and her lawyer husband live in New York City and Connecticut. Her daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, is also an author.

Erica Jong left a Ph.D. program at Columbia to write her ground-breaking novel Fear of Flying, published in 1973. Jong is the author of numerous award-winning books of poetry and novels including Fanny, How to Save Your Own Life, Parachutes and Kisses, Any Woman’s Blues, and the forthcoming Sappho’s Leap. She is also the author of the memoir Fear of Fifty. She lives in New York City and Connecticut.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dove Entertainment Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 078711457X
• ISBN 13: 9780787114572
• Binding: Audio Cassette