Fun home, a family tragicomic, Alison Bechdel
Type
Label
Fun home, a family tragicomic, Alison Bechdel
Language
eng
resource.biographical
autobiography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Fun home
Nature of contents
comics graphic novels
Oclc number
62127870
Responsibility statement
Alison Bechdel
Sub title
a family tragicomic
Summary
This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, 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 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. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.--From publisher description
Table Of Contents
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
Creator
Subject
- Fathers and daughters -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Graphic novels
- Bechdel, Alison, 1960- -- tecknade serier
- Homosexuality -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Bechdel, Alison, 1960-
- 18.06 Anglo-American literature
- Mishnah, Avot
- Comic
- Closeted gays -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Autobiografie
- Serietecknare -- Förenta staterna
- Bechdel, Alison, 1960- -- Childhood and youth -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Tochter
- Comics (Graphic works)
- 21.39 graphic arts: other
- Graphic format
- Cartoonists + Family relationships -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Families -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Autobiographies
- Comiczeichnerin
Content
Author
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Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Genre6
- Subject20
- Fathers and daughters -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Graphic novels
- Bechdel, Alison, 1960- -- tecknade serier
- Homosexuality -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Bechdel, Alison, 1960-
- 18.06 Anglo-American literature
- Mishnah, Avot
- Comic
- Closeted gays -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Autobiografie
- Serietecknare -- Förenta staterna
- Bechdel, Alison, 1960- -- Childhood and youth -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Tochter
- Comics (Graphic works)
- 21.39 graphic arts: other
- Graphic format
- Cartoonists + Family relationships -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Families -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Autobiographies
- Comiczeichnerin
- Content1
- Author1
- Other version1
- Mapped to1