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Fun Home
A Family Tragicomic
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DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the 2019 Olivier Award nominated musical.
‘A sapphic graphic treat’ The Times
A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings.
A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favourite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books.
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The bestselling memoir from a cult favourite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books.
Fun Home was named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, and People.
Discover the bestselling graphic memoir behind the Olivier Award-nominated musical.
'A sapphic graphic treat' - The Times
A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you liked Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, you'll love this.
Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, 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 his male students and the family babysitter. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.
Interweaving between childhood memories, college life and the present day, and through narrative that is equally heartbreaking and fiercely funny, Alison looks back on her complex relationship with her father and finds they had more in common than she ever knew.
'A groundbreaking masterpiece' - The Independent
'A finely woven blend of yearning and euphoric fantasy' - Evening Standard
One of The Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
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Alison Bechdel's Fun Home is celebrated as a rich and thoughtful graphic novel filled with literary allusions, encouraging multiple readings. It is highly praised as one of the best graphic novels ever, with its blend of humour and melancholy, transforming personal memoir into an extraordinary piece of art.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780224080514
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 September 2006
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Illustration: Throughout
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 148.0mm
Height: 227.0mm
Weight: 429g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Alison Bechdel is the author of the bestselling memoir Fun Home- A Family Tragicomic and, most recently, Are You My Mother? For twenty-five years, she wrote and drew the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a visual chronicle of modern life - queer and otherwise - considered 'one of the pre-eminent oeuvres in the comics genre.' Alison Bechdel is guest editor of Best American Comics, 2011, and has drawn comics for Slate, McSweeney's, Entertainment Weekly, Granta, and the New York Times Book Review.
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From her pygmy goat farm in Vermont, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel wonders — can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathing memoir about her own greed and privilege? 'The funniest, most satirical cartoon she has ever written — as well as, perhaps, the most prescient' OBSERVER Very funny and self-hating in a good way...Hardback$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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