Sapphos Leap by Carl Elliott, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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.22.52122.5218.5ERICA JONG978039332565297803933256590007115, 24.08TPPaperbackCouverture soupleA0393325652engWW NortonWW Norton3840.98.255.50.81250.98.255.50.812512004-06-08T00:00:00American Medicine Meets The American DreamBetter Than WellP10178HealthMEDLREF01AMedical ReferencePOL000000PoliticsBooks > History > Politicshttps://dynamic. indigoimages. ca/books/0393325652.jpg?scaleup=true&width=600&quality=85&lang=enhttps://dynamic. indigoimages. ca/books/0393325652.jpg?scaleup=true&width=600&quality=85&lang=frAmericans have always been the world's most anxiously enthusiastic consumers of enhancement technologies." Prozac, Viagra, and Botox injections are only the latest manifestations of a familiar pattern: enthusiastic adoption, public hand-wringing, an occasional congressional hearing, and calls for self-reliance. In a brilliant diagnosis of our reactions to self-improvement technologies, Carl Elliott asks questions that illuminate deep currents in the American character: Why do we feel uneasy about these drugs, procedures, and therapies even while we embrace them? Where do we draw the line between self and society? Why do we seek self-realization in ways so heavily influenced by cultural conformity? | Sapphos Leap by Carl Elliott, Paperback | Indigo Chapters