Iris Has Free Time

By Iris Smyles

Book Overview

Modeled on Dante's Divine Comedy and riffing on Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Iris Has Free Time is a subtle, complicated, funny, bold, lyrical and literary book about youth, time, and what it means to grow up

"There, I came across a cluster of NYU graduates standing in cap and gown. They were laughing and posing for photos. Was it June again already? Their voices echoed through the subway tunnel. 'Congratulations ' 'Congratulations ' their parents said. And I wanted to yell, 'Don't do it Go back You don't know what it's like '"

Whether passed out drunk at The New Yorker where she's interning; assigning Cliffs Notes when hired to teach humanities at a local college; getting banned from a fleet of Greek Island ferries while on vacation, or trying to piece together the events of yet another puzzling blackout--"I prefer to call them pink-outs, because I'm a girl"--Iris is never short on misadventures. From quarter-life crisis to the shock of turning thirty, Iris Has Free Time charts a madcap, melancholic course through that curious age--one's twenties--when childhood is over, supposedly. An instant classic and essential reading for anyone who has ever been young.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593765193
• ISBN13: 9781593765194
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Soft Skull
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"