It is a risky (and risque) business becoming 'Woman Triumphant' - exercising total power over men like Rusty Godowski. Rusty just wants to be a Hollywood star like everyone else at Buck Loner's academy, but now that Buck's niece, Myra Breckinridge, has arrived, the curriculum is taking a wildly strange turn. Willing to risk all to be superb and unique, Myra means to prove to her old friend Dr Montag that it is possible to work out in life all one's fantasies - and survive. 'From Myra's fist appearnce on the page she was a ...
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It is a risky (and risque) business becoming 'Woman Triumphant' - exercising total power over men like Rusty Godowski. Rusty just wants to be a Hollywood star like everyone else at Buck Loner's academy, but now that Buck's niece, Myra Breckinridge, has arrived, the curriculum is taking a wildly strange turn. Willing to risk all to be superb and unique, Myra means to prove to her old friend Dr Montag that it is possible to work out in life all one's fantasies - and survive. 'From Myra's fist appearnce on the page she was a megastar', explains her creator, Gore Vidal. Myra caused a second furore when she returned in Myron to battle it out with her eponymous alter ego, a drab little man fallen into marriage and a job in Chinese catering. Theirs is a contest of hormonal roulette, with glorious Myra off on time-travelling missions of mercy back to 1948 to try to change cinema history and to introduce her own radical theories of popuation control. Meanwhile Myron tries desperately to stay in the present as inconspicuously as Mrya will allow.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. 1986. Cloth, dj. 8vo. x & 417 pp. First edition. Mild shelf wear and discoloration to dust jacket, with some soiling to rear dj, otherwise protected by acetate cover. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. (Subject: Fiction. )
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Very Good + in Very Good + jacket. First Edition, Second Printing. Beautiful quarter black cloth over black paper-covered boards with gilt particulars and publisher's emblem to spine and debossed decoration to front board. Previous owner's library sticker to first free endpaper; otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Red sharpie mark to top edge; otherwise, text block is clean. Boards are clean with light wear to extremities; headcap is lightly bumped. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket is clean with light tanning to rear cover; light curling to edges and ends of spine.