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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Contributor(s): Bechdel, Alison (Author)

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 ISBN: 0618871713     ISBN-13: 9780618871711
Publisher: Mariner Books
OUR PRICE: $16.14  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2007
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Annotation: Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and funny, readers are drawn into a daughters complex yearning for her father. Apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Comics & Graphic Novels
Dewey: B
Age Level: 15-UP
Grade Level: 10-UP
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (0.85 lbs) 232 pages
Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
Awards: Green Mountain Book Award, Nominee, Grades 9-12, 2009
Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 12/11/2009 pg. 84
Library Journal 03/01/2014 pg. 48
Entertainment Weekly 03/06/2015 pg. 72
 
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Publisher Description:
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Time Magazine #1 Book of the Year - National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist -
Winner of the Stonewall Book Award - Double finalist for the Lambda Book Award -
Nominated for the GLAAD Media Award
Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that 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.

In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.

Contributor Bio(s): Bechdel, Alison: -

Alison Bechdel is the author of the bestselling memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, which was named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, New York Times, People, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Village Voice, and San Francisco Chronicle, among others. 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 preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period." (Ms.) Bechdel is guest editor of Best American Comics, 2011, and has drawn comics for Slate, McSweeney's, Entertainment Weekly, Granta, and The New York Times Book Review.

 
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