How to Save Your Own Life
Erica Jong
Penguin Publishing Group
<p>Erica Jong&#8212;like Isadora Wing, her fictional doppelganger&#8212;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. <i>How to Save Your Own Life</i> was praised by <i>People</i> 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.</p>