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 & unique Myra means to prove to her old friend Dr Montag that it is possible to work out in life all one's fantasies
- & 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 & 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 & to introduce her own radical theories of popuation control Meanwhile Myron tries desperately to stay in the present as inconspicuously as Mrya will allow