Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (English) Paperback Book

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DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the 2019 Olivier Award nominated musical.'A sapphic graphic treat' The TimesA moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings.

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The bestselling memoir from a cult favourite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books.Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times, and People.DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical.'A sapphic graphic treat' The TimesA moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you liked Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis you'll love this.Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high-school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and the family babysitter. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.Interweaving between childhood memories, college life and present day, and through narrative that is equally heartbreaking and fiercely funny, Alison looks back on her complex relationship with her father and finds they had more in common than she ever knew.'A groundbreaking masterpiece' The Independent'A finely woven blend of yearning and euphoric fantasy' Evening Standard**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**

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The bestselling memoir from a cult favourite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times, and People.

Author Biography

Alison Bechdel is the author of the bestselling memoir Fun Home- A Family Tragicomic and, most recently, Are You My Mother? For twenty-five years, she wrote and drew the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a visual chronicle of modern life - queer and otherwise - considered 'one of the pre-eminent oeuvres in the comics genre.' Alison Bechdel is guest editor of Best American Comics, 2011, and has drawn comics for Slate, McSweeney's, Entertainment Weekly, Granta, and the New York Times Book Review.

Review

Fun Home and Are You My Mother? are the kind of head-spinningly thoughtful and textured works that make you rejoice in the comic-book form. * Daily Telegraph *Bulging with literary allusions from Proust to Scott Fitzgerald, Fun Home is a book that demands to be read again and again. * Royal Academy Magazine *One of the very best graphic novels ever * Booklist *A brilliant, bleakly hilarious memoir in comic-book form * Time *A beautiful, assured piece of work... Bechdel's cartooning has transmuted [her father's] life and death into an extraordinary book * Salon.com *

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Fun Home and Are You My Mother? are the kind of head-spinningly thoughtful and textured works that make you rejoice in the comic-book form.

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Bulging with literary allusions from Proust to Scott Fitzgerald, Fun Home is a book that demands to be read again and again.

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The bestselling memoir from a cult favourite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. Named a Best Book of the Year by Time , Entertainment Weekly , the New York Times , and People.

Details ISBN0224080512 Author Alison Bechdel Pages 240 Year 2006 ISBN-10 0224080512 ISBN-13 9780224080514 Format Paperback Publication Date 2006-09-14 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 741.5 Media Book Short Title FUN HOME Language English Residence VT, US Birth 1960 Subtitle A Family Tragicomic Publisher Vintage Publishing UK Release Date 2006-09-14 AU Release Date 2006-09-14 NZ Release Date 2006-09-14 Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd Illustrations Throughout Illustrator Chris Chatterton Affiliation Ryan Gleason Position Associate Professor of Operations Management Qualifications Ph.D. Audience General Alternative 9781529193787 We've got this

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