Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama (Signed First Edition)

Alison Bechdel

ISBN 10: 0618982507 / ISBN 13: 9780618982509

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2012

About this Item

First printing, with full number line. A very fine (as-new) copy in a very fine (as-new) jacket. A clean, tight copy with price ($22.00) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. SIGNED by Bechdel on title page (as pictured). Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-1487

Bibliographic Details

Title: Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama (Signed ...

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine’s No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.

Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood . . . and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel’s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Mother—to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.

Book Description:

HMH Hardover, 2012Previous ISBN 978-0-618-98250-9