With two marriages and a best-selling novel behind her, Isadora is by now an older, wiser and somewhat more rueful heroine. She does indeed learn to fly, but the learning is hard won and far from flippant. How to Save Your Own Life deals with the gradual stages by which a marriage comes apart — the problems of betrayal, jealousy, trust. But the book is also about fame, Hollywood, sexual experimentation. By the time How to Save Your Own Life comes out, Isadora Wing, the fictional heroine of Fear of Flying, is herself the author of the novel Candida Confesses, a book that (like Fear of Flying) contained many autobiographical elements and brought its author celebrity, notoriety, ill-fated movie deals, and kinky mash notes from flakes in all corners of the country. Isadora, who is herself Jong’s creation, . Erica Jong left a Ph.D. program at Columbia to write her ground-breaking novel Fear of Flying, published in 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 /5(43).
Find many great new used options and get the best deals for How to Save Your Own Life: An Isadora Wing Novel by Erica Jong (Paperback / softback, ) at the best online prices at eBay! Erica Jong is an American author and teacher best known for her fiction and poetry, and particularly for her novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. According to Washington Post, it has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. In her groundbreaking first novel, Fear of Flying (20 million in print around the world in more than forty languages), she introduced Isadora Wing, who also plays a central part in three subsequent novels--How to Save Your Own Life, Parachutes and Kisses, and Any Woman's Blues.
Erica Jong left a Ph.D. program at Columbia to write her ground-breaking novel Fear of Flying, published in 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. Isadora takes a wise and wacky look at her life, her choices, and her future, going deep within her psyche to examine her relationships with herself, her work, her husband and her lovers. As she careens along in self-doubt and self-satisfaction amidst her newfound popularity as a bestselling author, we are taken on a bizarre ride, following Isadora to therapy, to California, on business deals, to an orgy. Erica Jong left a Ph.D. program at Columbia to write her ground-breaking novel Fear of Flying, published in 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.
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