Flying

by Kate Millett

Book Overview

Traces the author's strict Irish-Catholic upbringing in St Paul, Minnesota, and the shock of early sexual feelings and events. This book recounts the guilt of her first love for another woman and the joy of her relationship with her husband, the Japanese sculptor Fumio Yoshimura.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394489853
• ISBN13: 9780394489858
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publishers: Knopf, [distributed by Random House]
• Length: 545 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A brilliant period piece capturing 1969-1970

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.