How to Save Your Own Life - Softcover

Jong, Erica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747531595 ISBN 13: 9780747531593

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1997

Synopsis

Picks up the story of Isadora three years after the events of "Fear of Flying". Isadora is by now an older, wiser and somewhat more rueful heroine. This time her odyssey takes her to the never-never land called California where she meets a variety of sharks, knaves, fools - and one real lover.

About this title

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.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0747531595
• ISBN 13: 9780747531593
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284