Jong, Erica
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1942- ) US poet and author, best known for the Feminist energy of her first novel, Fear of Flying (1971). Her only tale of genre interest, Serenissima: A Novel of Venice (1987; vt Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice 2003), is a Timeslip tale with some sf language inattentively buttressing the premise. The protagonist finds herself haunted amid the playfully sketched glitterati of the Venice film festival – where she has arrived to star in a film version of The Merchant of Venice – and slips back to the sixteenth century, where she meets a vacationing Shakespeare and has Sex with him. Dying, she is – anticlimactically – reborn in the here and now. [JC/JoG]
Erica Mann Jong
born New York: 26 March 1942
works (selected)
- Serenissima: A Novel of Venice (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987) [hb/]
- Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice (New York: W W Norton, 2003) [vt of the above: pb/]
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