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.