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Fun Home - A Family Tragicomic

By: Mariner Books

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Graphic Novels - Alternative (Mariner Books)


Product Info

Title
Fun Home - A Family Tragicomic
Publisher
Category
Author
Alison Bechdel
Publish Year
2006
Pages
240
Dimensions
6x9x.75"
NKG Part #
2148194202
Type
Hardcover

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."