Informazioni generali

Nome legale: Owens, Iris
Altri nomi: Daimler, Harriet
Klein, Iris
Data di nascita: 1929
Data di morte: 2008-05-20
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: USA
Nazione (per mappa): USA
Luogo di nascita: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Luogo di residenza: New York, New York, USA
Paris, France
Istruzione: Barnard College
Brooklyn College
Attività lavorative: novelist
Relazioni: Koch, Stephen (friend)
Organizzazioni: Olympia Press
Breve biografia: Iris Owens (née Klein) 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. Her second novel, Hope Diamond Refuses, was loosely based on her marriage to an Iranian prince. (New York Review of Books Press)
Nota di disambiguazione: Used the pseudonym Harriet Daimler for pornographic writings. Please do not combine them.

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After Claude di Iris Owens

I filed this one under depression after spending a few hours with the darkly funny, pathetic, fanciful, deluded Harriet in this 1973 novel. After she has been moved to the Chelsea Hotel by the more-decent-than-I-would-have-been Claude, we encounter a setting smacking of primal scream therapy: "trapped groans filled my throat..." as her "guide" Roger chants "Let the demons out." But Harriet's demons are not to be corralled as she collapses yet again in wait for a man, any port in the storm to salve her paralyzed psyche and inertia. I thought of Edie Sedgewick or one of Jean Rhys' sad characters for whom the dark humor would be of no help.
And I am missing something so read this excellent, admiring review http://theamericanscholar.org/sex-and-the-single-woman/#.UfSQG9LVCh0
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featherbooks | 25 altre recensioni | May 7, 2024 |

After Claude (New York Review Books Classics) di Iris Owens

Protagonist is a badass crazy bitch who I was rooting for and found pretty funny and sad. Enjoyed the book. I heard it's extremely autobiographical, but I'd like to believe she had all sorts of meaning and anger fueling this fictional character. The tuna. Oh god. Also, it was weirdly insightful about that quiet disdain felt in relationships. The breakup scenes were painfully nuts and accurate.

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ostbying | 25 altre recensioni | Jan 1, 2023 |

After Claude (New York Review Books Classics) di Iris Owens

So sharp and witty. I am certain that I even missed a lot of the witticisms just because they were constant and delivered so quickly. The last quarter of the book felt a little out of place for me, almost like a different novel, but I still loved this over all. Funny, bitchy, unique, and smart.

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BibliophageOnCoffee | 25 altre recensioni | Aug 12, 2022 |

After Claude (New York Review Books Classics) di Iris Owens

Very funny satirical rant from a crazed antiheroine, a 1970s female precursor to one of Gary Shteyngart's mad self-centered narrators.

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AlexThurman | 25 altre recensioni | Dec 26, 2021 |

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