Jong, Erica (Vol. 83) - C. D. B. Bryan (review date 21 October 1984)
C. D. B. Bryan (review date 21 October 1984)
[Bryan is an American novelist, editor, nonfiction writer, and critic. In the following review, he notes that Parachutes & Kisses lacks plot development and comments that Jong settles for "the self-aggrandizing delusions of a literary Mae West."]
Eleven years ago in Erica Jong's best-selling Fear of Flying, Isadora Wing was 29 and twice married—first to a psychotic Columbia University graduate student and next to Bennett Wing, a Chinese-American Freudian child psychiatrist with whom she fearfully flew to a Psychiatric Congress in Vienna. There she met Adrian Goodlove, a British Laingian psychiatrist who spouted existentialist theory, playfully squeezed her, thought Jewish girls "bloody good in bed" and so mesmerized Isadora that she dumped Bennett in Vienna and took off with Goodlove on a haphazard trans-European motor trip, during which the main hazard turned out to be not Goodlove's losing...
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