Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An unusual memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father, a historic preservation expert dedicated to restoring the family's Victorian home, funeral home director, high-school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.

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About the Author:
ALISON BECHDEL has been a careful archivist of her own life and kept a
journal since she was ten. Since 1983 she has been chronicling the lives of
various characters in the fictionalized "Dykes to Watch Out For" strip, "one
of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period" (Ms.). The
strip is syndicated in 50 alternative newspapers, translated into multiple
languages, and collected into a book series with a quarter of a million
copies in print. Utne magazine has listed DTWOF as "one of the greatest
hits of the twentieth century."
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*Starred Review* This is a father and daughter story. Bechdel's mother and two brothers are in it, of course, but Bruce Bechdel had the biggest impact on his eldest child and so is naturally the other main character in her autobiographical graphic novel. Emotionally and physically reserved, to the point of brusqueness, he busied himself restoring--and then some--the Victorian-era house he bought for the family in the Pennsylvania town in which he was born and lived virtually all his 44 years. He enlisted the kids for never-ending interior and exterior modifications of the place in what obviously was his major creative outlet. For a living, he taught twelfth-grade English and ran the small undertaking business that occupied part of his parents' house and that the kids called the fun home. Bechdel doesn't even hint about how ironic she and her brothers meant to be, because she is a narrative artist, not a moralist or comedian, in this book and because she has a greater, real-life irony to consider. After disclosing her lesbianism in a letter home from college, her mother replied that her father was homosexual, too. Alison suddenly understood his legal trouble over buying a beer for a teenage boy, all the teen male "helpers" he had around the house, and his solo outings during family vacations to New York. Bechdel's long-running Dykes to Watch Out For is arguably the best comic strip going, and Fun Home is one of the very best graphic novels ever. Ray Olson
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  • PublisherTurtleback Books
  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 1417823143
  • ISBN 13 9781417823147
  • BindingSchool & Library Binding
  • Number of pages240
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