Sappho's Leap

ISBN-13: 9780393325614 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 352 str.

Erica Jong

Opis

Sappho's Leap is a journey back 2,600 years to inhabit the mind of the greatest love poet the world has ever known. At the age of fourteen, Sappho is seduced by the beautiful poet Alcaeus, plots with him to overthrow the dictator of their island, and is caught and married off to a repellent older man in hopes that matrimony will keep her out of trouble. Instead, it starts her off on a series of amorous adventures with both men and women, taking her from Delphi to Egypt, and even to the Land of the Amazons and the shadowy realm of Hades. Erica Jong--always our keenest-eyed chronicler of the wonders and vagaries of sex and love--has found the perfect subject for a witty and sensuous tale of a passionate woman ahead of her time. A generation of readers who have been moved to laughter and recognition by Jong's heroines will be enchanted anew by her re-creation of the immortal poet.

Recenzje

"Jong offers sly commertary on everything from slavery to superstition, greed, lust, vanity, deceit, age, and artistic freedom in a tale that is at once enormously entertaining and wisely provocative." (Booklist)

O autorze

Erica Jong wurde 1942 in Manhattan/New York geboren. Sie studierte Englische Literatur an der Columbia University. Von 1966 bis 1969 lebte sie mit ihrem zweiten Mann, einem Facharzt für Kinderpsychiatrie, in Heidelberg. Sie schrieb Zeitschriftenartikel, publizierte drei Lyrikbände und wurde mit ihrem ersten Roman "Angst vorm Fliegen" auf einen Schlag berühmt. Heute lebt sie als freie Schriftstellerin in New York.