Alison Bechdel
Spent: A Comic Novel

'The funniest, most satirical cartoon she has ever written – as well as, perhaps, the most prescient' OBSERVER

"Very funny and self-hating in a good way" ZADIE SMITH

From 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?

But how can she just sit around writing a book when the world is hanging on a thread?

In this hilariously skewering comic novel, Alison is existentially pained by a climate-challenged world and a country on the brink of civil war.

Her first graphic memoir about growing up with her taxidermist father has been adapted into a highly successful TV series, Death and Taxidermy.... Lire la suite