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~ Michelle Tea (Author), Lauren McCubbin (Illustrator)
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)

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Publishers Weekly called Michelle Tea ""a modern-day Beat, a kind of pop ambassador to the world of the tattooed, pierced, politicized and sex-radical queer-grrls of San Francisco. [She] dramatizes the hopes and hurts, apathies and ambitions of young lesbians looking for love in the Mission District."" Rent Girl continues Tea's graphic and uncompromising autobiographical bender, telling the story of her years as a prostitute, with provocative and richly illustrated work by Laurenn McCubbin.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 239 pages
  • Publisher: Last Gasp; Perennial & 1 edition (August 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0867196203
  • ISBN-13: 978-0867196207
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 7.8 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #411,583 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Truth Behind Closed Doors, November 24, 2004
Michelle Tea never seems tired of writing about her life. If she keeps up to her to usual standards, there's no reason why the rest of us would ever tire of reading about it either. RENT GIRL focuses on Tea's history in the sex trade, a witty graphic novel/memoir that is not only humorous and inspiring but beautifully illustrated.

Tea is a fantastic writer who does not shy away from revealing the "mechanics" of her exploits to an encounter with a bad case of crabs. There is no "woe is me" monologues or angry tirades against an unforgiving society. She describes the absurdity of her clients, from a self-proclained warlock to cocaine-addicted business men. Her writing masterfully remains passively unapologetic and full of the witty prose that Tea is known for. The art work is spectacular. Laurenn McCubbin's eye for detail captures near-perfect facial expressions and the raw emotion of Tea's work. I hope the two will collaborate again.

RENT GIRL is simply amazing. Michelle Tea's personal accounts are simple yet complicated with jaded opinions and poetic verses about faked sex acts and looking for stability in a chaotic world. This won't disappoint.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars IN "TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2004," FRONTIERS NEWSMAGAZINE, January 4, 2005
This graphic novel is less about a working-class lesbian's foray into the sex industry and more about the liberation of life experience. Tea reinforces the fact that she's the real deal: Her prose is colloquial and well-crafted--typos notwithstanding. And McCubbin's illustrations? Each is a little piece of perfection: shimmering, warm, and bright.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dee in Sacramento, September 20, 2006
The book is written differently than any other book I have read so that caught me off guard at first. I learned to enjoy the way Michelle Tea wrote and was fasinated by her life. My only complaint is that it ended way too soon. I am going to purchase more of her work. The artwork is wonderful.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Unique - Simultaneously Sexy, Silly, and Sad
How do you categorize this powerful work of art, the diary of a lesbian drug-using hooker with pictures on every page? "Rent Girl" isn't a novel. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Scott Allen

4.0 out of 5 stars Graphic Example of a Graphic Novel/Memoir
This was the first Graphic Novel/Memoir that this reviewer has ever read. The closest thing to the experience was the comic books, children's books and "Mad" magazine of my youth... Read more
Published 6 months ago by James R. Holland

4.0 out of 5 stars Too much energy, too little drive
Michelle Tea tells the first-person story of a young woman, just twenty-one, drifting through the early 90s. Read more
Published 10 months ago by wiredweird

4.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps not _Mrs. Dalloway_, true, but to read it is to experience it.
Look, this isn't a normal book about a normal subject. You don't get a neatly wrapped-up story of character development. Read more
Published on September 30, 2007 by sunjoy

5.0 out of 5 stars one of my favorites
This is one of those books that becomes a lyric caught in your head. Every word just felt a little too relevant... Read more
Published on June 7, 2007 by Claire

5.0 out of 5 stars Michelle Tea's greatness never fails.
As a fan of all of Michelle Tea's works, this one keeps track with her amazing writing style. It's not normal, but it's not unbearably weird. Read more
Published on August 15, 2006 by Cleo Marigold

4.0 out of 5 stars Rent Girl
At first the art and stream-of-thought-style writing is a little hard to stomach. After around the second chapter, however, I really started to get used to the style and actually... Read more
Published on March 3, 2006 by Michelle Ward

1.0 out of 5 stars The thing about a confessional...
The thing about a confessional is that no one ever confesses times when they did something good. Times when they were more clever than usual, or nicer. Read more
Published on January 24, 2006 by B. Rust

5.0 out of 5 stars witty, sexy and sketchy (in a good way)
I really enjoyed this book. It's a graphic novel, and I think that the format opens up the narrative to accessability. Read more
Published on September 29, 2005 by Mandy Claire

5.0 out of 5 stars beautifully written, beautifully drawn
Lyrical, insightful, honest, and rich with detail, Rent Girl provides an unvarnished, up-close look at sex work and hustling without ever being prurient or preachy. Read more
Published on November 22, 2004 by Janice Erlbaum

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