After Claude

Name: After Claude
ISBN: 9781590173633

by Iris Owens

3/5

(82 votes)

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.

First published: October 5, 2010
Publishers: NYRB Classics
Language: English

Started out a bit rough but then became a read that I could not put down ... enjoyable.

This first person narrative with a very unreliable narrator is a great read, funny and sad. I wish the author had written more.

A really strange book, uncomfortable at times - more of a 2.5 for me than a 3, but it's going to vary a lot for other readers depending on personal tastes.

About Iris Owens

Iris Owens (née Klein) (1929–2008) was born and raised in Brooklyn, the daughter of a professional gambler. She attended Brooklyn 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. Owens supported herself by producing pornography, or DBs as she referred to Dirty Books, (under the name of Harriet Daimler) for Maurice Girodias’s Olympia Press. She also married an Iranian prince. Resettled in NYC, Owens wrote After Claude (1973). A second novel, Hope Diamond Refuses, loosely based on her second marriage, was published in 1984....

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