The life swap - Hardcover

Nancy Weber

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080374806X ISBN 13: 9780803748064

Synopsis

LET’S SWAP LIVES began the ad Nancy Weber placed in The Village Voice in February, 1973. Thirty-one, a swinging single writer, happy but yearning, Nancy wanted another woman to witness her life from within while Nancy was living a whole new kind of existence—loving strangers as her own (including kids, she hoped), doing other work, assuming a different dailiness. She and Micki Wrangler, a psychologist in an open marriage, swapped lives for one tumultuous week. Before reality TV, there was reality…and The Life Swap recounts all the intimate details of an adventure often imitated but never equaled. "This book is the memoir of one of the bravest acts of literary guerilla warfare it has ever been my pleasure to encounter." —Harlan Ellison

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Review

“This book is the memoir of one of the bravest acts of literary guerilla warfare it has ever been my pleasure to encounter.” —Harlan Ellison
 
“A weird little gem.” —Lauren Kirchner, The Airship
 
“The mother of all life swaps. . . . A bloody good read.” —Rachel Cooke, The Guardian

About the Author

Nancy Weber’s diverse body of fiction includes The Playgroup, a psychological suspense novel with a medical twist; the slipstream novel Brokenhearted; the metafiction Ad Parnassum; the young adult mini-series Two Turtledoves; and eight romances written under her pseudonym, Jennifer Rose. Her nonfiction book The Life Swap, published in the seventies, recounts her experience exchanging lives—trading habits and jobs and even lovers—with a stranger. Weber has written for the stage as well, adapting the lyrics for the American version of composer Alexander Zhurbin’s Seagull: The Musical.
 
Weber earned a toque blanche at the French Culinary Institute and ran a catering business, Between Books She Cooks, for a decade. She plays chess, badly, and drinks Irish whiskey.

Edition details

• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080374806X
• ISBN 13: 9780803748064
• Binding: Hardcover