How to Save Your Own Life

This is a novel full of pizazz and glitzty writing that sucks you into its insane heart.
"I wanted to fuck him, but I didn't want to see him after... (show more)

This is a novel full of pizazz and glitzty writing that sucks you into its insane heart.
"I wanted to fuck him, but I didn't want to see him afterward. After eight years, our marriage had all the intimacy of a one-night stand."
"So many marriages, so many deaths. People getting up in the morning and going to work, coming home at night, fucking feeling dead. No wonder they left, ran off with their secretaries, smoked dope at forty-five, discovered sex as if they were Adam and Eve in the garden, and paid and paid and paid for it. Lawyers' bills, alimony, houses sold for half of what you paid for them, children going to therapists, looking up at you with wounded eyes, furniture carted away, family heirlooms kissed good-bye, wounded husbands, wounded wives - it was all worth it if it made you feel alive again. In a pinch we all know the truth: survival is all. the life-force is the one thing you can't afford to lose."
There was a lot of writing that rang true but a lot of it felt outdated too as it was written in 1977. It was more interesting as a piece of feminist history than as a novel when I looked at it again recently. (show less)