Consumida / Spent: A Comic Novel
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Vuelve Alison Bechdel con una novela gr�fica coral en la que el capitalismo tard�o, el poliamor, el cambio clim�tico y la mism�sima cotidianidad son tambi�n protagonistas
«Dr�stica, sarc�stica y fant�stica . --LA Times Un libro ocurrente y pol�tico que cuestiona la realidad mundial y la incertidumbre del ma�ana Los d�as de cierta historietista llamada Alison Bechdel transcurren, no tan pl�cidamente, en la finca rural de Vermont donde vive junto a su pareja, Holly, a cargo de una granja de cabras pigmeas. Frustrada por un mundo que parece dist�pico, al borde de entrar en guerra y en el que el cambio clim�tico amenaza con mandarnos al garete, Alison quiere hacer un libro descarnado y honesto que le proporcione a la humanidad las armas para exterminar, de una vez por todas, la avaricia y los privilegios. Quiere acabar con el Capital y abrazar una nueva era con una vida m�s �tica. Sin embargo, su necesidad de obtener ingresos, sus propias contradicciones, y tambi�n las de la nutrida comunidad de amistades que la rodean -reconoceremos, d�cadas despu�s, a varios personajes de Unas lesbianas de cuidado- le plantear�n m�s de un desaf�o en su misi�n. Por no hablar del eclipsante �xito de los v�deos virales que realiza Holly sobre la vida en el campo, o de la llegada a la granja de una veterinaria buenorra, o de la inc�moda relaci�n que tiene Alison con su hermana, furibunda enemiga de todo lo que suene a woke, o de las jaquecas que le provoca la adaptaci�n televisiva de su libro m�s exitoso, en la que el respeto por la obra original brilla por su ausencia. Lograr� salvar el mundo? Conseguir� salvar quiz� su comunidad? Salvar� al menos su relaci�n de pareja? Lo que es seguro es que, como asegura el New York Times Book Review, «nadie lo hace mejor que la Alison Bechdel real. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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. "Truthful, rueful and delightful."--LA Times 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.Alison Bechdel publicó, durante veinticinco años (1983-2008), las tiras cómicas Unas lesbianas de cuidado, conocidas en Estados Unidos por su carácter combativo y que la convirtieron en un verdadero icono de la contracultura. Su fama creció aún más gracias a dos cómics autobiográficos aclamados internacionalmente, tanto por los lectores como por la crítica: Fun Home (2006) y ¿Eres mi madre? (2012), el primero de los cuales obtuvo un premio Eisner, fue finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award y fue incluido en la lista de los mejores libros del siglo XXI por el diario británico The Guardian, además de haber tenido una exitosa adaptación al teatro musical (merecedora de cinco premios Tony). Más recientemente, su novela gráfica inspiracional (y también autobiográfica) El secreto de la fuerza sobrehumana (2021) fue nombrada una de las mejores obras del año por The New York Times. Como dibujante de prensa, sus piezas han aparecido en Slate, McSweeney's, Entertainment Weekly, Granta y The New York Times Book Review. Asimismo, y entre otros galardones en reconocimiento a su carrera artística, ha recibido la prestigiosa beca MacArthur y ha sido nombrada Historietista Laureada de Vermont.
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