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Title: A MAJOR Disappointment
Review: Erica Jong is an important writer. One had hoped that in writing about one of the first and most important characters in feminist history she would produce a book worthy of the challenge. Sadly she hasn't. How anyone could could make such a fascinating story boring I'll never know. To anyone wanting to read a novel about Sappho (based on the relatively few facts that we know) I would point them in the direction of Peggy Ullman Bell's excellent "Psappha: A Novel of Sappho." They should also get a good translation of the poetry of Sappho that was not destroyed.
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