A 40th-anniversary reissue of the best-selling novel incorporates a new introduction by the best-selling author of Good in Bed and offers insight into period culture and the evolving ways American society thought about gender, sexuality and liberty. 50,000 first printing. The 40th anniversary reissue of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Fear of Flying, with a new introduction by New York Times bestselling author Jennifer WeinerOriginally published in 1973 by Holt, Reinhardt and Winston, Fear of Flying, the internationally bestselling story of Isadora Wing by Erica Jong, coined a new phrase for a sex act and launched a new way of thinking about gender, sexuality, and liberty in our society. On the 40th anniversary of its initial publication, we, the original publisher, are reissuing this seminal work with a new introduction by Jennifer Weiner. An NPR Best Book of 2013