How to Save Your Own Life

✍ Scribed by Jong, Erica

• Book ID: 110447567
• Publisher: TarcherPerigee
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 246 KB
• Series: Isadora Wing 2
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781101076941
• ASIN: B002CIY8HY

✦ Synopsis

Erica Jong--like Isadora Wing, her fictional doppelganger--was rich and famous, brainy and beautiful, and soaring high with erotica and marijuana in 1977, the year this book was first published. Erica/Isadora are the perfect literary and libidinous guides for those readers who want to learn about-or just be reminded of-the sheer hedonistic innocence of the time. How to Save Your Own Life was praised by People for being "shameless, sex-saturated and a joy," and hailed by Anthony Burgess as one of the ninety-nine best novels published in English since 1939.

About the Author

Erica Jong is the author of nineteen books of poetry, fiction, and memoir, including Fear of Flying , which has more than 18 million copies in print worldwide. Her most recent essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review , and she is a frequent guest on television talk shows. Currently working on a novel featuring Isadora Wing—the heroine of Fear of Flying —as a woman of a certain age, Erica and her lawyer husband live in New York City and Connecticut. Her daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, is also an author.

Erica Jong left a Ph.D. program at Columbia to write her ground-breaking novel Fear of Flying , published in 1973. Jong is the author of numerous award-winning books of poetry and novels including Fanny , How to Save Your Own Life , Parachutes and Kisses , Any Woman’s Blues , and the forthcoming Sappho’s Leap. She is also the author of the memoir Fear of Fifty. She lives in New York City and Connecticut.