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Seducing the Demon

Writing For My Life

by Erica Jong

Seducing the Demon

Hardcover, 279 pages, Penguin Group USA, List Price: $22.95 | purchase

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Book Summary

The author shares the story of her career as a poet, novelist, and feminist provocateur, offering insight into her experiences with fame and notoriety while discussing the motivations behind her writings and the literary masters who inspired her work.

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Author Erica Jong, on Getting Panned

Seducing the Demon, the latest book by novelist Erica Jong, received a bad review in The New York Times this past Sunday. In the past, Jong says she would have curled up in bed and thought about changing careers. But now she says that perhaps she could learn something from a critic's harsh words.

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