Fun Home - Softcover

Tesori, Jeanine; Kron, Lisa; Bechdel, Alison

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0573704570 ISBN 13: 9780573704574

Publisher: Concord Theatricals, 2015

Synopsis

WINNER! Best Musical - 2015 Tony® Awards!
WINNER! Best Score (Jeanine Tesori & Lisa Kron) - 2015 Tony® Awards!
WINNER! Best Book of a Musical (Lisa Kron) - 2015 Tony® Awards!
WINNER! BEST MUSICAL - New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Off-Broadway Alliance Award
FINALIST! The Pulitzer Prize for Drama

When her father dies unexpectedly, graphic novelist Alison dives deep into her past to tell the story of the volatile, brilliant, one-of-a-kind man whose temperament and secrets defined her family and her life. Moving between past and present, Alison relives her unique childhood playing at the family's Bechdel Funeral Home, her growing understanding of her own sexuality, and the looming, unanswerable questions about her father's hidden desires. Fun Home is a refreshingly honest, wholly original musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes.

About this title

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."

From Booklist

*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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About this edition

• Publisher: Concord Theatricals
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0573704570
• ISBN 13: 9780573704574
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 78