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| Title | : | Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic |
| Author | : | Alison Bechdel |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 232 pages |
| Published | : | June 5th 2007 by Mariner Books (first published June 8th 2006) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Autobiography. Memoir. Comics |
Alison Bechdel
Paperback | Pages: 232 pages Rating: 4.08 | 121193 Users | 8762 Reviews
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In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the Fun Home. It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.Details Books Concering Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
| Original Title: | Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic |
| ISBN: | 0618871713 (ISBN13: 9780618871711) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Pennsylvania(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Stonewall Book Award for Non-Fiction (2007), Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction (2007), Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography (2007), Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Reality-Based Work (2007) |
Rating Containing Books Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Ratings: 4.08 From 121193 Users | 8762 ReviewsCommentary Containing Books Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Book #4 for Jugs & Capes, my all-girl graphic-novel book club! You can also read this review (slightly tweaked) on CCLaP.***I've been wanting to read this book for years. Isn't it crazy that I had to start an entire graphic novel book club to somehow give myself permission to read it? Perhaps. But who cares about the machinations I forced myself through to get to it? I am so glad I did. This book is simply spectacular. It is dense, fraught with meaning, stuffed with prose and complimented byTHIS JUST IN : P BRYANT FAILS HIP GRAPHIC NOVEL TESTFun Home, a cripplingly hip graphic novel, is....Yes?It's....YES??Well, let's see, it's, you know, all right, good, yes, nods head, hummphs into beard, pulls earlobe, raises eyebrows, waves hands in a vague direction, shifts about in seat. You know. Don't get me wrong. It was good. Yes. Cool, clever, really hip, I mean, really, as far as I can tell, my hipometer needs a new battery I think; it was not the least bit funny, but that's not such a
Shatters all my preconceptions of the graphic novel, reassures me of the forms capacity for dense literally allusiveness, intellectual analysis and philosophical ponderings. Brilliant. The writer/artist was raised in a marvellously retro settinga refurbished mansion kitted out like a Russian estate, with a snobbish bookworm for a father and an upper-class actress manqué for a mother (both of whom taught high-school English). The story attempts grand parallels between the author and her father,
Reading Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic put me in the same irritated and impatient mood experienced when reading Toni Morrison's The Song of Solomon in high school: both books feel like major wank-offs to the writers' cumulative reading endeavors. To put it in less crude terms, both books overflow with self-conscious references to classic literature (both use The Odyssey in a major way). However, this is not a review of The Song of Solomon, so I suppose I will set aside that grudge for now.This is
I went out and bought this book immediately after hearing a paper on it at a recent conference. The paper had to do with narrative strategies that children use for uncovering and witnessing their parents' trauma -- in this book, the narrator Allison tries to piece together her father's life into a narrative she wants to read as that of a closeted gay man. In the narrator's logic, her coming out of the closet prompted her father's suicide four months later. After a life of secret affairs and
Many Thanks to Margaret who recommended this book to me!WOW! ....I knew NOTHING about this book -TERRIFIC/ SPECTACULAR-until it was in my hands today......(other than it was a highly recognized-graphic memoir - chosen best book of the year by at least 10 major publications in 2006).80, 4333 people rated this book -- so where was I? Hidden away with blindfolds and earplugs? There's a lot going on in this --'memoir'.... so much so, there could be several individual books written on any 'one'
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