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Title Statement | Sappho's leap: a novel / by Erica Jong. |
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Author | Jong, Erica |
Publication | New York: W.W. Norton, c2003. |
Edition | 1st ed. |
Extent of Item | xix, 316 p. |
ISBN | 0393057615 |
Other Number | 1276194 |
General Notes | Map on endpapers. |
Summary | The love poet Sappho, who lived on the island of Lesbos 2,600 years ago, is seduced by the poet Alcaeus and eventually married off to a repellent older man. The unhappy union starts her off on a series of amorous adventures, taking her from Delphi to Egypt. Throughout her travels, she gives birth to and loses a daughter and becomes a famous singer of the ancient world. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Greeks--Fiction--Egypt |
Women poets--Fiction | |
By Name | Sappho |
By Location | Greece--Fiction--History--To 146 B.C |
Lesbos Island (Greece)--Fiction | |
Egypt--Fiction | |
By Genre | Biographical fiction |
Historical fiction | |
Erotic fiction |