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Fun home : a family tragicomic / Alison Bechdel.

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

Summary:

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0618477942
ISBN: 9780618871711
ISBN: 0618871713
ISBN: 9780618477944
Physical Description: 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [2006]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary.
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.
Target Audience Note:	9-12 Medialog, Inc.
Awards Note:	American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards, 2007.