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Paying for It: A Comic-strip Memoir About Being a John

By Chester Brown

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Paying for It: A Comic-strip Memoir About Being a John

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The critically lauded memoir about being a john, available in paperback for the first time! Paying for It was easily the most talked-about and controversial graphic novel of 2011, a critical success so innovative and complex that it received two rave reviews in The New York Times and sold out of its first print run in just six months. Chester Brown's eloquent, spare artwork stands out in this paperback edition. Paying for It combines the personal and sexual aspects of Brown's autobiographical work (I Never Liked You, The Playboy) with the polemical drive of Louis Riel. He calmly lays out the facts of how he became not only a willing participant in but also a vocal proponent of one of the world's most hot-button topics-prostitution. While this may appear overly sensational and just plain implausible to some, Brown's story stands for itself. Paying for It offers an entirely contemporary exploration of sex work-from the timid john who rides his bike to his escorts, wonders how to tip so as not to offend, and reads Dan Savage for advice, to the modern-day transactions complete with online reviews, seemingly willing participants, and clean apartments devoid of clichéd street corners, drugs, or pimps. Complete with a surprise ending, Paying for It continues to provide endless debate and conversation about sex work.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
290
Release Date:
2013-05-28
Publication Date:
2013-05-28
Publisher:
Drawn and Quarterly
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1770461191
ISBN13:
9781770461192
Weight:
308 g
Height:
19.1 cm
Width:
14.3 cm
Thickness:
2.4 cm
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