How to Save Your Own Life

Jong, Erica

ISBN 10: 0451079590 / ISBN 13: 9780451079596

Published by Signet, 1978

About this Item

A copy with both shelf and reading wear. Including creases and dulled edges. The binding remains tight. Inside a previous owner blind stamp inside front cover. Lightly toned but otherwise unmarked pages. Small dampstain. A copy in excellent reading condition.

Seller Inventory # 4930

Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Save Your Own Life
• Publisher: Signet
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451079590
• ISBN 13: 9780451079596
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good

About this title

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.