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Spent: A Memoir (2014)

by Antonia Crane(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1940207061 (ISBN13: 9781940207063)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Rare Bird Books, A Barnacle Book

review 1: I appreciated the vivid imagery in this book. The author is well-studied and you can sense it in the writing. She brings scenes to life in your brain, like beautiful red-wood scenery, or a dingy wet club. I sensed the honesty while reading this book, and appreciated the climax of the book and the "not-a-cheesy-happy-ending" position that it took. I gave it 4 stars not because it is one of my favorite books I have read, or a book that I would even read it again, but because I think that there is something to be said about the poignancy in certain writing, and this book evoked a strong sense of it.
review 2: Enjoyed this book immensely, both for its spare, poetic prose, and its no bullshit humanity. Crane refuses to tie her story up with a neat narrative bow, and... more instead allows her readers the dignity of their own discomfort. This is not your typical recovery/redemption memoir--no one learns a lesson in the end, and Crane has no time for self-pity. Neither, is it a porny sex memoir masquerading as literature. Instead, life is offered as is, without gloss or nostalgic Instagram filter, a montage of indelible images from Crane's years as a sex worker. A gorgeous book, at times heartbreaking, but always compelling, and impossible to put down. less

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