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Fun Home - A Family Tragicomic

By: Mariner Books

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Graphic Novels - Alternative (Mariner Books)

Last Stocked on 11/14/2013

Product Info

Title
Fun Home - A Family Tragicomic
Publisher
Category
Author
Alison Bechdel
Publish Year
2006
Pages
232
Dimensions
7x10x.75"
NKG Part #
2147417253
MFG. Part #
0-618-87171-1
Type
Softcover

Description

That Alison Bechdel kept a childhood journal made Fun Home a perhaps more true-to-life project than it would have been if she'd relied on memory alone. A powerful graphic novel-memoir, Fun Home documents Bechdel's childhood experiences and coming-of-age as a woman and lesbian. At its center lies her heartbreaking relationship with her distant father, which produces emotionally complex and poignant reflections and clean, bitonal images. While detractors cited confusing chronology and repetition of events, literary buffs enjoyed the challenging references to Albert Camus, James Joyce, and classical mythology. In the end, Fun Home "is an engrossing memoir that does the graphic novel format proud."