How to Save Your Own Life Author:Erica Jong Erica Jong -- like Isadora Wing, her fictional doppelganger -- 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 hedoni... more »stic innocence of the time. How to Save Your Own Life was praised by People 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.« less