With independence, and separation and bitterness, are central to ''Parachutes and Kisses,'' Miss Wing is especially taken by men who admire her poetry and literary seriousness. Miss Wing is one long sexual advertisement for herself.Īs in ''How to Save Your Own Life'' (the sequel to ''Fear of Flying''), the heroine of ''Parachutes and Kisses'' is now a popular, if not important, writer. Boasting, perhaps unwittingly, Miss Wing succumbs to those who have been educated by her peccadilloes in print, and tell her so. She especiallyįalls for men who have read her books. At age 39, Miss Wing has discovered men in their mid-20's with energy levels to match or, with luck, to surpass her own. Places overlooking Long Island Sound, and in walkup apartments featuring unmade, rumpled beds. She is now doing her thing on a water bed in her husbandless suburban house while her child is asleep, in motels off the Merritt Parkway, in friends' In the new novel, the priapean Central Park West princess has changed her venue but not her style.
But while God is in Her feminist heaven, all's not right in Miss Wing's earthy Connecticut dream world.
Is still engaged in a dozen random romances. Now, in ''Parachutes and Kisses,'' it is a decade and three broken marriages later, Miss Wing has one adored child, and she is pushing 40 years old. While flying to a Freudian conference in Vienna. WHEN last heard from, Isadora Wing, Erica Jong's by-sex-possessed Cosmo girl who made her first appearance in ''Fear of Flying,'' was having it all - doing her favorite zipless activity above the clouds October 10, 1984, Wednesday, Late City Final Edition
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