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 and plots with him to overthrow the dictator of their island. When they are caught, she is 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. Born Erica Mann in 1942, Erica Jong was an award-winning poet, winning the American Academy of Poets Award in 1963 and publishing the critically acclaimed book of verse, Fruits and Vegetables (1971), before publishing her groundbreaking novel of female sexuality, Fear of Flying (1973). Her best-known works follow the sexual awakening and subsequent life and career of Isadora Zelda White Stollerman Wing; they begin with Flying, and continue with How to Save Your Own Life (1977) and Parachutes and Kisses (1984). In the 1960s, before she achieved success as a writer, Jong taught English at the City College of City University of New York and spent time in Germany as a faculty member of the University of Maryland, overseas division, in Heidelberg. In 1995, she was a judge in fiction for the National Book Awards.13.51118.518.5ERICA JONG978039332561497803933256190007118, 22.52TPPaperbackCouverture soupleengW W NortonW W Norton3360.838.255.50.680.838.255.5112004-04-26T04:00:00ZSapphos LeapP10140FICTIONFICTION01AGeneral FictionFIC000000FictionBooks > Fictionhttps://dynamic. indigoimages. ca/books/039332561X. jpg?scaleup=true&width=600&quality=85&lang=enhttps://dynamic. indigoimages. ca/books/039332561X. jpg?scaleup=true&width=600&quality=85&lang=frhttps://www. indigo. ca/en-ca/sapphos-leap/9780393325614.htmlhttps://www. indigo. ca/fr-ca/sapphos-leap/9780393325614.htmlSAPPHO'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 and plots with him to overthrow the dictator of their island. When they are caught, she is 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. | Sapphos Leap by ERICA JONG, Paperback | Indigo Chapters