European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 7. 1980 the stars and stripes Page 1 the True history of the adventures of Jong by Judy Klemesrud new York times t was a typical Day at Erica Jong s Ultra modern Coli Franb in connection Cedar House per i Ched on the Side of a Rocky Cliff at Weston she was working on a Book in her office in the attic her husband novelist Jonathan fast was working on n Book in his office above the garage. Everything was eerily Silcani Ven the water swirling in the couple s hoi Tuton 1 be deck outside i heir bedroom. Then As lunchtime approached Jong punched an inter com Button on the Telephone on her desk and is cd her husband if he would like to join her in the Kitchen. About inc same time their 2-year-old daughter Molly arrived Home from the Beach with Lier baby Sitter. Jong kissed her red haired daughter and removed her disposable diaper. Then As they walked hand in hand 1o lunch Jong gestured toward a yellow Canvas playhouse overflowing with toys in a hallway outside the living room and said with a smile i always said i would never have traces of Bahy around my House at least below the second floor. But Ami forget Oil of that once you actually have a baby at either Mother daughter and baby Sitter sat round of dining room Able eating Carlin wat with Al Ruck and Tomato salad they looked and sounded eke typical upper twiddle Elau suburban family. La was prob any not the kind of Home setting one would expect for the 38-year-old Jong who emerged after the publication of her 1973 novel. Fear of flying As one of the country1 most successful and controversial feminist authors one who vowed she would never wed again after two unsuccessful marriages the last to a new Yor psychiatrist named Allan Jong. Do you think Molly likes crab meat Jong worriedly linked both her husband and the baby Sitter. Maybe we should give her Yogurt  there was also talk about the condition of the family Mutt. Buffoon who was in the animal Hospital after being bitten by n Raccoon and about Molly a new Nanny who was scheduled to arrive that Day from England. As they spoke inc family s Oiler dog Pooch in spirited while Bichon Frise scampered around the dining room table hoping to be. Fed scraps. His name was inspired by the russian writer Pushkin and Jong said she hoped someday to Olio have dogs named Che Karf . Jong who was wearing � Pur pfc shirt baggy Turquoise pants and purple High weled sandals was hewing this peek into her intimate family life be cause her new Book Fanny being toe True Iliili try to tit Adieu torts of Fanny Hycl Touboul joints is being published this month by new american Library. It was almost As though Jong wanted to show How Normal she was in the face of he publicity that her Bawdy 1 eth Century historical novel is Likely to receive. Written in 19th-Century English it is a Radical departure from the so called confessional style of tier first two novel fear of flying and How to save your own life. I began four years ago. With the proposition. What if Tom Jones had been a woman " Jong said. I wanted my heroine to have every experience possible for a Wom an of her  As a result Fanny is portrayed a a lavished orphan an initiated Witch a pirate a Highway robber a whore Al world traveler n Kepi woman and a Loving Mother. Jong was 50 stranger to 18th-Century literature. As an undergraduate of Barnard she once tools a literature course in which she wrote a mock Epick in heroic couplets in the style of Alexander Pope and a Novella in the style of Henry Fielding. Her master s degree from Columbia is also in 18th-cer,Lury literature. Funny is writer in the form of a Book of advice from a Mother Fanny to her daughter