What happened to Isadora Wing when she
stepped out of the tub? Did she learn to fly at last? How
to Save Your Own Life picks up Isadora's story three
years after the events of Fear of Flying and
provides the answers to these questions -- and much more.
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. Isadora's odyssey this time takes her
not to Europe, but to the never-never land called
California where she meets a variety of sharks, knaves,
fools, gurus, friends -- and one real lover. One by one
the myths are explored and exploded. Isadora comes to
realize that it is finally possible, and necessary, to
save your own life.
Reviews:
"Once again, women everywhere will
identify.... Every bit as compelling and wit-filled as
Jong's first, Fear of Flying."
--West Coast Review
of Books
"Wickedly funny ... This is an erotic lust
story ... enjoy, enjoy.
--Wall Street Journal
How to Save Your Own Life
Plume edition 1996
310 pages; paperback
ISBN: 0-452-27454-0
Published originally in 1977
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