description: A decade after her first appearance in Erica Jong's bestselling FEAR OF FLYING, the gloriously uninhibited Isador Wing is back, and she's trying to have it career, baby, liberated love life. But times have changed since Isadora first took off. The dreams of the Sixties have been brought down to earth by the grim (but rollicking) realities of the Eighties. Married (again) and divorced (again), Isador's a single parent now, with an adorable daughter, an irritating ex-husband, a motley crew of suitors---unorthodox rabbi, poetic disc jockey, the son of a famous sex therapist, and so many others she's practically lost track. Suddenly single and besieged by "eligible" men, Isador discovers that love and sex in the Eighties require a whole new etiquette. But still, love eludes her. A rekindled romance with a high school sweetheart teaches her that you can't go home again. A fling with a nervously married investment banker proves that preppy passion is not a contradiction in terms. And then she meets Berkeley Sproul III. (At the health club, where else?) Tall, blond, and dazzingly handsome, "bean" is a blueblooded WASP, a struggling actor, a demon lover...and fourteen years her junior. Can it work? Her brain tells her it can't; her heart tells her it must---and Isadora is taking flight again, this time with Bean, "wholly confident in his manhood in a way Isadora supposed must have vanished with the Vikings." A deliciously wry look at love and sex in the Eighties, PARACHUTES &amp; KISSES brings "liberation" up-to-the minute---and beyond. Brimming with wit, intelligence, and no-holds-barred eroticism, it is a novel about a woman's search for her ancestors and for love that satisfies the soul and (maybe)lasts.
language: English
title: Parachutes & Kisses
titlecomplete: Parachutes & Kisses
genres: Literature, American, Feminism, Literary Fiction, Novels, Erotica, Fiction, Chick Lit, Poetry, Romance
ratings_count: 711
publisher: NAL Books