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Iris Has Free Time by Smyles, Iris is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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.

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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Smyles, Iris
Publisher
Soft Skull Press : Made available through hoopla
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9781593765194
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Humor
Rating
3 / 5 (230 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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