'In a kaleidoscopic, almost cinematic style, Kate Millett unreels her inner and outer life during one decisive year: the year after "Sexual Politics" transformed her almost overnight from unknown sculptor to media star. In the heady atmosphere of instant fame, while she is constantly moving between New York and London, Cape Cod and her farm in Poughkeepsie, Millett's days and nights are filled with flashes of anger, moments of intimacy, appointments, funerals, divorces, parties, and meetings. Her response is to write it all down, resulting in the book she called 'the most fun I ever had as a writer'. A rushing, swirling outpouring of intimate self-revelation, "Flying" sweeps the reader along in a whirlwind of anxiety, exhilaration, and white-hot passion'.'Millett retraces her strict Irish-Catholic upbringing in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the shock of early sexual feelings and events. She recounts the guilt of her first love for another woman and the joy of her relationship with her husband, the Japanese sculptor Fumio Yoshimura. With complete candor, Millett reveals a turmoil of memories, fears, and triumphs: her doubts about her own strength in fulfilling the role of visionary for the women's movement, pressure from the movement when she reveals her bisexuality to the press, and, finally, a renewed determination to live and grow as an artist and a writer'.
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"[An] autobiographical work of dazzling exhibitionism." -- New York Times Book Review
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This book is a brilliant burst of poetic prose, with some sentences having such remarkable images that I had to copy them down to keep for life. It retells the period from 1969-1971 in Kate Millett's life, when she was roughly treated as the cover subject of Time on Aug. 31, 1970. It details the early feminist movement and its opposition by the reactionary male right.
It also speaks graphically of her sexual encounters with both men and women, but always poetically and tastefully. I think it's one of the best books of the last half of the twentieth century. I would recommend it to anyone, but I'll never lend out my copy: That stays in my house forever for frequent future reference.
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New York, New Haven, South Africa, Gay Liberation, Fifth Street, Bryn Mawr, Kate Millett, New England, Lower East Side, Puerto Rican, Selby Avenue, Sex Pol, Aunt Christina, Cedar Bar, Bleecker Street, Celia Tyburn, Commercial Street, King's Head, Musique Ancienne, Radical Lesbians, Second Avenue, Sixth Avenue, Upper Street, West Side Highway, Cambridge Circus New!
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- The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition by Doris Lessing on page 32, page 357, and page 516
- Vita Nuova (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri in Front Matter, and page 162
- Making It by Norman Podhoretz on page 196
- Death of the Family by D. Cooper on page 276
- Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell on page 154
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