Word: jong
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...with herself, escaping her addictions to drugs, alcohol, sex and food, and learning that self-love is enough. But it is really a disturbing tale of leather and peignoirs, money, motorcycles and Georgia O'Keefe-like paintings, Alchoholics Anonymous and New York nightlife--material more befitting Jay McInerney than Jong...
...only thing that saves Any Woman's Blues from the junkpile of drugstore soft-core porn is Jong's reputation, the "men aren't everything" conclusion and a few stylistic tricks that make the book an interesting read...
...Jong writes the book with three different names. Caryl Fleishmann-Stanger writes the forward. Isadora Wing, the heroine of Jong's most famous novel Fear of Flying, writes the story itself and is given to recording, in the middle of narrative text, arbitrary conversations with Leila Sand, the novel's protagonist...
...employing such a variety of voices, Jong can tell the reader exactly what to think of the story. In the forward, for example, she uses Fleishmann-Stanger to give a "scholarly view" of the novel, telling us that "Any Woman's Blues is a fable for our times...
...interjecting conversation between Sand and Wing throughout the story, Jong claims she will show the reader the process of writing the novel, the struggle between author and subject when the story becomes as real for the writer as her life...