For instance, Alice Munro’s No Love Lost is one of my favorite books about love (and lack thereof). Frustrated by the way that I, and my partners, have failed to measure up to the ideal promised in Western romantic narratives, I’ve sought out books by women that take a frank look at relationships. I am nearly Isadora’s age, and although I’ve never been married, I’ve been in enough long term relationships with men to recognize myself in Isadora. Related: 11 Erotic Romance Novels That Will Make Your Toes Curl
It does so beautifully, incisively, hilariously, and empathetically. The highly autobiographical story looks back on Isadora’s life from her childhood to her present, exploring the paradoxical demands made on women by biology and society, and the profound fuckwittery therein. Torn between the security of her familiar unhappiness with Bennett, and Adrian’s exotic pull, Isadora reflects on how she came to this exhausting point. 290.During the trip, Isadora becomes obsessed with Adrian, an existentialist and analyst with whom she begins a very conspicuous affair. Fear of Flying, Penguin 40th Anniversary Edition, foreward by Theresa Rebeck, p. Fielding was an important influence on Erica Jong's novels - Isadora Wing, the uninhibited protagonist of Jong's classic novel, Fear of Flying, has often been compared to Fielding's Tom Jones ("is it her heart that is driving her? Or, like Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, is she allowing a different part of her anatomy to make her decisions?") and she also wrote a novel set in Fielding's era, Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones, which explores the question of what if Tom Jones had been a woman more directly (cf. The first edition of Henry Fielding's first play, which opened on February 16th,1728 at The Royal Theatre in Drury Lane. A few spots of wear to the corners, rebacked, contents lightly spotted and toned, trimmed, occasionally touching the headlines, bookplates of Viscount Birkenhead and Louis C. Nineteenth-century calf, gilt, rebacked preserving old spine.
A Comedy, As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal, By His Majesty's Servants. Lot 18 FIELDING, HENRY Love in Several Masques.
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