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Iris Has Free Time (2013)

by Iris Smyles(Favorite Author)

2.99 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1593765193 (ISBN13: 9781593765194)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Soft Skull Press

review 1: Really pretty great. Almost reads as a collections of memoiristic essays, but there's plenty of clever narrative maneuvers to tie the thing together as a "novel." Very much seems to belong the the "novel-from-life" genre recently championed by Sheila Heti. Much more honest and much less party-girl fantasia than I was expecting, with was absolutely for the best. Perhaps I'm biased, as for better or worse, I could deeply identify with the heroine, a driving force, I'm sure behind the confessional memoir, which this book is not, but the writing is smart but breezy, and frequently funny (I actually chuckled aloud several times, something I rarely do)-- a sort of summer beach read that manages to say something about fiction, youth, and t-shirts.
review 2: I think Ir... moreis has Free Time could have been a good book but I spent so much time confused while reading. The sequence of events did not flow. It seemed like a bunch of short stories with overlapping situations were crammed together to make a book. I just couldn't get into it. It was like every time I got into the story and thought I understood what time period, what boyfriend etc a new chapter would start and I would be back to trying to figure it all out again. less

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