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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel
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Description for Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Paperback. Meet the author'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 is involved with his male students and the family babysitter. This title is a graphic memoir. Num Pages: 240 pages, Throughout. BIC Classification: BM; FXZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 424.
DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical.
'A sapphic graphic treat' The Times
A 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224080514
SKU
V9780224080514
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Ref
99-98
About Alison Bechdel
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more