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Fun Home

A Family Tragicomic
By Alison Bechdel
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Fun Home by Alison Bechdel is a graphic memoir that explores the author's complex relationship with her father, a funeral director, and English teacher. Through a mix of personal anecdotes, literary references, and family history, the narrative delves into themes of identity, sexuality, and the impact of familial secrets. It's a poignant story of self-discovery and the intricacies of family dynamics.
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You might enjoy this graphic novel if you're interested in a deeply personal memoir that intricately explores themes of family, identity, and self-discovery. The narrative skilfully weaves together humour and poignancy, providing a reflective journey into the complexities of a father-daughter relationship and the author's own coming-of-age story. This book may appeal to you if you appreciate storytelling that pairs insightful introspection with engaging visuals.

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Fun Home

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.

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ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY

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 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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Fun Home by Alison Bechdel is lauded for its passionate exploration of sexuality and identity, receiving acclaim as one of the best books in the graphic novel genre for tackling these complex themes.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529116168

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 June 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 212g

Pages: 240

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Alison Bechdel Biography & Memoir Featured Fiction Graphic Novels Penguin Books

About the Author

Alison Bechdel is the author of three internationally acclaimed graphic memoirs, Fun Home- A Family Tragicomic, Are You My Mother?- A Comic Drama and The Secret to Superhuman Strength. Fun Home was a New York Times bestseller, won an Eisner Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was named a Best Book of the 21st Century by the Guardian, was adapted to a broadway musical which won five Tony Awards and is currently being adapted for cinema. 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 preeminent 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. In 2014 she was named as one of the recipients of the MacArthur 'Genius' Award. http-//dykestowatchoutfor.com/

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