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Spent : a comic novel / Alison Bechdel ; coloring by Holly Rae Taylor ; shadowing by Jon Chad.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063278929
- ISBN: 0063278928
- Physical Description: 255 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Mariner Books, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- The process of production of capital -- The commodity -- The process of exchange -- The struggle between worker and machine -- Simple reproduction -- The struggle for a normal working day -- The specialized worker and his tools -- Day work and night work -- The expropriation of the agricultural population from the land -- The transformation of the value (and respectively the price) of labour-power into wages -- The circumstances which, independently of the proportional division of surplus-value into capital and revenue, determine the extent of accumulation, namely, the degree of exploitation of labour-power, the productivity of labour, and the growing difference in amount between capital employed and capital consumed, and the magnitude of the capital advanced -- Co-operation.
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Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Town of Orford Libraries.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orford Social Library | 741.5/973 | 34190000127315 | New items | Available | - |
