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by Iris Owens
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Availability:In StockContributor:Iris Owens, Emily Prager (Introduction by)Series:New York Review Books ClassicsPublish date:2010-11-09Pages:232
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590173633ISBN-10:1590173635UPC:9781590173633Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Women, HumorousBook Topic:Black HumorSize:7.96 x 5.10 x 0.49 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCAJFARDKJ
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590173633ISBN-10:1590173635UPC:9781590173633Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Women, HumorousBook Topic:Black HumorSize:7.96 x 5.10 x 0.49 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCAJFARDKJ


Iris Owens (née 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 wroteAfter 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.

Publisher: New York Review of Books

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Iris Owens, Emily Prager (Introduction by)

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Iris Owens

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