Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (9780224080514)

Alison Bechdel

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Description - Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

One of the most eagerly anticipated graphic memoirs of recent years, FUN HOME is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form.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. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned 'fun home', as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.

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Book Details

ISBN: 9780224080514
ISBN-10: 0224080512

Classification:
Fiction & related items »
Graphic novels »
Graphic novels: true stories & non-fiction

Format: Paperback / softback
(229mm x 151mm x 17mm)
Pages: 240
Imprint: Yellow Jersey Press
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publish Date: 14-Sep-2006
Country of Publication: United Kingdom

Other Editions - Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Hardback
(June 2007)

Paperback / softback
(August 2015)

Paperback
(June 2007)

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Author Biography - Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel has been a careful archivist of her own life and kept a journal since she was ten. Since 1983 she has been chronicling the lives of various characters in the fictionalised Dykes To Watch Out For strip, 'one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period' (Ms). The strip is syndicated in fifty alternative newspapers, translated into multiple languages, and collected into a book series with a quarter of a million copies in print. Four of her books have won Lambda Literary Awards for Humor, and The Indelible Alison Bechdel won a Lambda Literary Award in the biography/autobiography category. Bechdel lives near Burlington, Vermont.

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