After Claude
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- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2011
Summary
Harriet is leaving her boyfriend Claude, “the French rat.” That at least is how Harriet sees things, even if it’s Claude who has just asked Harriet to leave his Greenwich Village apartment. Well, one way or another she has no intention of leaving. To the contrary, she will stay and exact revenge-or would have if Claude had not had her unceremoniously evicted. Still, though moved out, Harriet is not about to move on. Not in any way. Girlfriends circle around to patronize and advise, but Harrie…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590173633 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1590173635 |
| Author: | Iris Owen, Emily Prager |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2011 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 127mm |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
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Some of the withering put-downs, observations and asides are as beautiful as they are brutal. Best of all, it’s very funny; as long as your taste in humour is on the savage side. Tribune
About The Author
Iris Owen
Iris Owens (nee Klein) (?-2008) was born and raised in New York City, the daughter of a professional gambler. She attended Barnard College, was briefly married, and then moved to Paris, where she fell in with Alexander Trocchi, the editor of the legendary avant-garde journal Merlin and a notorious heroin addict, and supported herself by producing pornography (under the name of Harriet Daimler) for Maurice Girodias’s Olympia Press. Back in the United States, Owens wrote After Claude, which came out in 1973. A second novel, Hope Diamond Refuses, loosely based on her marriage to an Iranian prince, was published in 1984.
Emily Prager is a novelist, a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library, and the winner of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism 2000 Online Journalism Award for Commentary. She is at work on a book of essays for Random House, entitled Secrets of Shanghai.
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