I found Erica Jong’s “How to Save Your Own Life” a couple years ago at one of my father’s Masonic Lodge’s fund-raisers for about a dollar.

Just having begun to use an Apple as my primary computer I’ve been cataloging my consumables via Delicious Library. This is how I came to learn that this novel “How to Save your Own Life,” was not Erica Jong’s first work introducing her character Isadora Wing. WELL, having not yet begun “How to… I figured I’d better start at the beginning.

Enjoying so far!

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What a surprise! I put off reading this for years, afraid it was just some outdated, feminist polemic. I was wrong. It is funny, charming, and completely engaging. I was alternately reminded of Philip Roth, Woody Allen, Two for the Road, and Sex and the City. Loved it!