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Fun home : a family tragicomic  Cover Image Book Book

Fun home : a family tragicomic

Bechdel, Alison 1960- (author,, artist.).

Summary: This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, 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 male students and a 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.--From publisher description.

Item details

  • ISBN: 9780618477944
  • ISBN: 0618477942
  • ISBN: 9780618871711
  • ISBN: 0618871713
  • ISBN: 9781417823147
  • ISBN: 1417823143
  • Physical Description: print
    232 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Mariner books edition.
  • Publisher: Boston : A Mariner Book, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2007]

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note: Old father, old artificer -- A happy death -- That old catastrophe -- In the shadow of young girls in flower -- The canary-colored caravan of death -- The ideal husband -- The antihero's journey.
Awards Note:
American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards, 2007.
Subject: Bechdel, Alison 1960- Childhood and youth Comic books, strips, etc
Cartoonists Family relationships United States Comic books, strips, etc
Homosexuality United States Comic books, strips, etc
Closeted gays United States Comic books, strips, etc
Families United States Comic books, strips, etc
Fathers and daughters United States Comic books, strips, etc
Homosexuality
Bechdel, Alison 1960-
Family Relations
Homosexuality
Homosexualité États-Unis Bandes dessinées
Homosexuels dans le placard États-Unis Bandes dessinées
Familles États-Unis Bandes dessinées
Pères et filles États-Unis Bandes dessinées
Homosexualité
homosexuality
18.06 Anglo-American literature
21.39 graphic arts: other
SOCIAL SCIENCE Lesbian Studies
Bechdel, Alison 1960-
Homosexuality
Fathers and daughters
Families
Closeted gay people
Cartoonists
United States
Bechdel, Alison 1960-
Mishnah Avot Mishnah Avot
Tochter
Comiczeichnerin
Bechdel, Alison 1960- Comic books, strips, etc
Cartoonists United States Comic books, strips, etc
Bechdel, Alison 1960- Enfance et jeunesse
Bechdel, Alison 1960- tecknade serier
Serietecknare Förenta staterna
Bechdel, Alison 1960- Comic books, strips, etc
Cartoonists Comic books, strips, etc
Comic books, strips, etc
Genre: Graphic novels.
Graphic Novel
Autobiographies.
graphic novels.
Autobiographies.
Comics (Graphic works)
Graphic novels.
Autobiografie.
Comic.
Graphic novels.
LGBTQ+ comics.
Graphic novels.
Autobiographical comics.
Gay comics.
Lesbian comics.
Comics (Graphic works)
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Romans graphiques.
Bandes dessinées autobiographiques.
Bandes dessinées.

Currently available copies

  • 27 out of 34 copies are currently available at PINES. (Show)
  • 1 out of 2 copies are currently available at Flint River Regional Library System. (Show)
  • 0 out of 1 copy are currently available at Peachtree City Library.

Holds

  • 2 current holds on 34 total copies.

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