{"product_id":"spent-alison-bechdel","title":"Spent (Alison Bechdel)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The funniest, most satirical cartoon she has ever written - as well as, perhaps, the most prescient' OBSERVER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Very funny and self-hating in a good way\" ZADIE SMITH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom her pygmy goat farm in Vermont, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel wonders: Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathing memoir about her own greed and privilege?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut how can she just sit around writing a book when the world is hanging on a thread?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this hilariously skewering comic novel, Alison is existentially pained by a climate-challenged world and a country on the brink of civil war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer first graphic memoir about growing up with her taxidermist father has been adapted into a highly successful TV series, \u003ci\u003eDeath and Taxidermy\u003c\/i\u003e. It's a phenomenon that makes Alison, formerly on the cultural margins, the envy of her friend group.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the TV show racks up Emmy after Emmy, Alison's own envy spirals. Surely writing her own wildly popular reality TV series wouldn't be that hard? One that shows people how to free themselves from consumer capitalism and live a more ethical life?!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Spent\u003c\/i\u003e, the celebrated, bestselling author of the modern classic \u003ci\u003eFun Home\u003c\/i\u003e presents a laugh-out-loud and passionately political work of autofiction, and once again proves that \"nobody does it better\" (New York Times) than the real Alison Bechdel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlison Bechdel\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three internationally acclaimed graphic memoirs, \u003ci\u003eFun Home: A Family Tragicomic, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAre You My Mother?: A Comic Drama \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Secret to Superhuman Strength. Fun Home\u003c\/i\u003e was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eGuardian, \u003c\/i\u003ewas 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 \u003ci\u003eDykes to Watch Out For\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eBest American Comics\u003c\/i\u003e, 2011, and has drawn comics for \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2014 she was named as one of the recipients of the MacArthur 'Genius' Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehttp:\/\/dykestowatchoutfor.com\/\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 272 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65777137320285,"sku":"K098196832","price":20.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9819683200001A.jpg?v=1788290297","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/spent-alison-bechdel","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}