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Sappho's leap / a novel by Erica Jong.
Van Pelt Library PS3560.O56 S27 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jong, Erica.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sappho--Fiction.
- Sappho.
- Greeks--Egypt--Fiction.
- Greeks.
- Women poets--Fiction.
- Women poets.
- Egypt.
- Greece--History--To 146 B.C--Fiction.
- Greece.
- History.
- Lesbos (Greece : Municipality)--Fiction.
- Lesbos (Greece : Municipality).
- Egypt--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Erotic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 316 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, [2003]
- Summary:
- Fearless, exuberant, and passionate, Sappho is Erica Jong's most unforgettable heroine. 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.
- Notes:
- Maps on lining papers.
- ISBN:
- 0393057615
- OCLC:
- 51203766
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