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Spent : A Comic Novel

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, adapted for audio by the author herself and brought to life with a full cast star-studded cast including Alison Bechdel as Narrator, Jenn Colella as Alison, and Ali Liebegott as Lois

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?!!

Produced with immersive sound effects and music, 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.


Author:

  • Alison Bechdel

Narrators:

  • Alison Bechdel
  • Holly Rae Taylor
  • Jenn Colella
  • Adenrele Ojo
  • Ali Liebegott
  • Christina Delaine
  • Renata Friedman
  • Joe Barrett
  • Maggi-Meg Reed
  • Kimberly Farr
  • Hayden Bishop
  • Keylor Leight
  • Dan Bittner
  • Bill McKibben
  • Gilli Messer
  • Naomi Liv Joseffy

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 0 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Fiction
  • Comedic fiction
  • Fiction
  • Biographical novels
  • Comics and humor
  • Satire and parody

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