When the beautiful Jessica Pruitt arrives in Venice to star in a film based onAn amazing tour de force.Erica Jong can write a historical novel that both honors its tradition with affectionate parody and creates its own full fictional reality.Fresh, innovative, ingenious...moving. The imagination of the poet she essentially is strikes deep. I recommend it with all my heart. A stirring book of fable and fantasy...outrageously readable. Fay Weldon