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Erica Jong on 50 Shades of Grey: Is This What We've Come To?

“The problem with SHADES OF GREY,” Ms. Jong says, “is that it is just bad writing. That and the fact the heroine is subservient allowing her body to be abused in order to ‘get her man.’ Is this what we’ve come to?”

The internationally acclaimed and always provocative author, Erica Jong, whose novel FEAR OF FLYING opened the sexual door of women’s fiction, will be the Guest Author at BookHampton on Saturday May 19th. Ms. Jong, whose own literary history includes some of contemporary fiction’s raciest passages, is no wilting flower when it comes to hard-core erotica or women’s pleasure.

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