After Claude
by Owens, Iris
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.
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After Claude
by Iris Owens
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- 1973
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. Paperback. Stated First Edition. Uncorrected Proof. 5 x 7.75in. 203pp. Publisher's wraps. NEAR FINE. Shows the slightest hint of foxing of the top textblock edge, else Fine/As New. As pictured. Item Price
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After Claude
by Owens, Iris
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- 1975
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London: Quartet Books, 1975. vi+208pp. Book and wrapper soundly in library bound plastic. Book firm and very clean. Light library markings. D/W not clipped. No tape on wrapper. Rear flap has been slit to faciltate a library pocket. ISBN 0704320886.. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good+. 8vo. Ex-Library. Item Price
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After Claude
by Owens, Iris
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- 2010
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New York Review of Books, 2010. Paperback. New. 206 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.50 inches. Item Price
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