Spent

(Hardback)

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The celebrated and beloved bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-out-loud and passionately political work of autofiction In this hilariously skewering comic novel, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel is existentially irked by a climate-challenged world and a country on the brink of civil war. From her pygmy goat farm in Vermont, she wonders- Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathing memoir about her own greed and privilege Meanwhile, Alison's first graphic memoir about growing up with her taxidermist father has been adapted into a highly successful TV series, Death and Taxidermy. It's a phenomenon that makes Alison, formerly on the cultural margins, the envy of her friend group. As the TV show racks up Emmy after Emmy, Alison's own envy spirals. Why couldn't she be the writer for a wildly popular reality TV series which shows people how to free themselves from consumer capitalism and live a more ethical life! Spent's rollicking and masterful final act makes the case for seizing what's true about life in the world at this moment before it's too late, and once again proves that "nobody does it better" (New York Times) than the real Alison Bechdel.

Author Bio

Alison Bechdel is the author of two internationally acclaimed graphic memoirs, Fun Home- A Family Tragicomic and Are You My Mother- A Comic Drama. Fun Home was a New York Times bestseller, won an Eisner Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was named a Best Book of the 21st Century by the Guardian, was adapted to a broadway musical which won five Tony Awards and is currently being adapted for cinema. For twenty-five years, she wrote and drew the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a visual chronicle of modern life - queer and otherwise - considered 'one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre'. Alison Bechdel is guest editor of Best American Comics, 2011, and has drawn comics for Slate, McSweeney's, Entertainment Weekly, Granta, and The New York Times Book Review. In 2014 she was named as one of the recipients of the MacArthur 'Genius' Award. http-//dykestowatchoutfor.com/