{"product_id":"the-life-swap-a-true-story-9781504015356","title":"The Life Swap: A True Story","description":"In February of 1973, Nancy Weber put an ad in the\u003ci\u003e Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e offering to trade places with another woman, a stranger, for a month. In hopes of better understanding what was fixed and final in each person--and what was invented, and therefore might be reinvented--they would use each other's names, live in each other's homes, love each other's loves, and do each other's work. After interviewing many of the fascinating women who answered the ad, Weber--single (with a longtime lover) and straight--chose a polyamorous, bisexual, married psychologist and academic, the pseudonymous Micki Wrangler. They spent five months getting ready for their adventure--cajoling their nearest and dearest into participating, exchanging thousands of details, and swapping deep secrets. But, instead of a month, their wild ride lasted only a week. Wrangler was having a rough time (and Weber too good a time, maybe) so they decided to call things off. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Wanting \u003ci\u003eThe Life Swap\u003c\/i\u003e to convey more than her own experience, Weber invited Wrangler and ten others to enrich the book with their uncensored reports. Publicity for the book included stints on \u003ci\u003eThe Tonight Show with Johnny Carson\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTo Tell the Truth\u003c\/i\u003e. The book achieved a kind of cult status, in part because it's a relic of 1970s sexual openness (cruelly destroyed by HIV\/AIDS) and belief in the right of self-invention. Recent critics have credited the book with inspiring life swap reality TV shows and several popular novels and films. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNancy Weber's diverse body of fiction includes \u003ci\u003eThe Playgroup\u003c\/i\u003e, a psychological suspense novel with a medical twist; the slipstream novel \u003ci\u003eBrokenhearted\u003c\/i\u003e; the metafiction \u003ci\u003eAd Parnassum\u003c\/i\u003e; the young adult mini-series Two Turtledoves; and eight romances written under her pseudonym, Jennifer Rose. Her nonfiction book \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife Swap\u003c\/i\u003e, published in the seventies, recounts her experience exchanging lives--trading habits and jobs and even lovers--with a stranger. Weber has written for the stage as well, adapting the lyrics for the American version of composer Alexander Zhurbin's \u003ci\u003eSeagull: The Musical.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Weber earned a toque blanche at the French Culinary Institute and ran a catering business, Between Books She Cooks, for a decade. She plays chess, badly, and drinks Irish whiskey.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Integrated Media LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50649041797394,"sku":"9781504015356","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bc5ae240-d066-4fef-a836-68fdffaece5d.jpg?v=1733256195","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-life-swap-a-true-story-9781504015356","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}