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Owens, born Iris Klein in Brooklyn, New York, graduated from Barnard College.
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After Claude (New York Review Books Classics)
(Harriet is leaving her boyfriend Claude, “the French rat....)
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 Harriet only takes offense, and it’s easy to understand why. Because mad and maddening as she may be, Harriet sees past the polite platitudes that everyone else is content to spout and live by. She is an unblinkered, unbuttoned, unrelenting, and above all bitingly funny prophetess of all that is wrong with women’s lives and hearts—until, in a surprise twist, she finds a savior in a dark room at the Chelsea Hotel.
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Iris Owens
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During the 1950s she lived in Paris, where she was associated with the group of expatriate writers who produced the literary review Merlin, among them Alexander Trocchi, Christopher Logue, George Plimpton and Richard Seaver. Like Trocchi and Logue, she earned money writing erotic novels for Maurice Girodias"s Olympia Press. Owens"s four Olympia Press novels, along with a fifth which she coauthored, were published under her pseudonym.
Owens returned to New York in the 1960s and remained there until her death.
Under her own name she published two more novels, the first of which, After Claude, was published in 1973 and reissued in 2010 in the New York Review of Books New York Review of Books Classics series. The second was Hope Diamond Refuses, published in 1984.
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After Claude (New York Review Books Classics)
(Harriet is leaving her boyfriend Claude, “the French rat....)
- AFTER CLAUDEAfter Claude BY Owens, Iris(Author)paperback on Nov 09 2010
- After Claude (New York Review Books Classics) by Iris Owens (2010-11-30)
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After Claude (New York Review Books Classics)
