9780618871711-0618871713-Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

ISBN-13: 9780618871711
ISBN-10: 0618871713
Edition: Reprint
Author: Alison Bechdel
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Format: Paperback 232 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780618871711
ISBN-10: 0618871713
Edition: Reprint
Author: Alison Bechdel
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Format: Paperback 232 pages

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (ISBN-13: 9780618871711 and ISBN-10: 0618871713), written by authors Alison Bechdel, was published by Mariner Books Classics in 2007. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other Women (Specific Groups) books. You can easily purchase or rent Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Women books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.42.

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A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books.

This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with 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 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 adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.

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