The Story
SPENT GN (C: 0-1-1)
(W) Bechdel, Alison (A) Bechdel, Alison (C) Bechdel, Alison
MARINER BOOKS
StockID: 149309 SKU: MAR251492
The celebrated and beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-out-loud- brilliant- and passionately political work of autofiction. In Alison Bechdel's hilariously skewering and gloriously cast new comic novel confection- a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel- running a pygmy goat sanctuary in Vermont- is existentially irked by a climate-challenged world and a citizenry on the brink of civil war. She wonders: Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathingly self-critical memoir about her own greed and privilege? Meanwhile- Alison's first graphic memoir about growing up with her father- a taxidermist who specialized in replicas of Victorian animal displays- has been adapted into a highly successful TV series. It's a phenomenon that makes Alison- formerly on the cultural margins- the envy of her friend group (recognizable as characters- now middle-aged and living communally in Vermont- from Bechdel's beloved comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For). As the TV show Death and Taxidermy racks up Emmy after Emmy-and when Alison's Pauline Bunyanesque partner Holly posts an instructional wood-chopping video that goes viral-Alison's own envy spirals. Why couldn't she be the writer for a critically lauded and wildly popular reality TV show…like Queer Eye...showing people how to free themselves from consumer capitalism and live a more ethical life?!! Spent's rollicking and masterful denouement-making the case for seizing what's true about life in the world at this moment- before it's too late-once again proves that 'nobody does it better' (New York Times Book Review) than the real Alison Bechdel.
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SPENT GN (C: 0-1-1)
(W) Bechdel, Alison (A) Bechdel, Alison (C) Bechdel, Alison
MARINER BOOKS
StockID: 149309 SKU: MAR251492
The celebrated and beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-out-loud- brilliant- and passionately political work of autofiction. In Alison Bechdel's hilariously skewering and gloriously cast new comic novel confection- a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel- running a pygmy goat sanctuary in Vermont- is existentially irked by a climate-challenged world and a citizenry on the brink of civil war. She wonders: Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathingly self-critical memoir about her own greed and privilege? Meanwhile- Alison's first graphic memoir about growing up with her father- a taxidermist who specialized in replicas of Victorian animal displays- has been adapted into a highly successful TV series. It's a phenomenon that makes Alison- formerly on the cultural margins- the envy of her friend group (recognizable as characters- now middle-aged and living communally in Vermont- from Bechdel's beloved comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For). As the TV show Death and Taxidermy racks up Emmy after Emmy-and when Alison's Pauline Bunyanesque partner Holly posts an instructional wood-chopping video that goes viral-Alison's own envy spirals. Why couldn't she be the writer for a critically lauded and wildly popular reality TV show…like Queer Eye...showing people how to free themselves from consumer capitalism and live a more ethical life?!! Spent's rollicking and masterful denouement-making the case for seizing what's true about life in the world at this moment- before it's too late-once again proves that 'nobody does it better' (New York Times Book Review) than the real Alison Bechdel.
