If Jong knows, she isn't telling. Anne Sexton sometimes seemed like a woman without skin. Women who read it will feel enormously reassured about their own sexuality and if enough men read it, the quality of sex in America is bound to improve. I was 19 and a student of la bella lingua in Florence. Like most famous literary books, ''Lolita'' seduced the world for the wrong reasons.
CAT stands for coital alignment technique.
It is as if, in 'How to Save Your Own Life,' Erica Jong had interviewed herself, when she should have been, sentence by sentence, writing a book. The blood's pulse dulls the meter. The bombast drowns the music. The sincerity stifles the wit. This third novel by Erica Jong is a literary prodigy.