Fun home : a family tragicomic / Alison Bechdel.

By:

Bechdel, Alison, 1960-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Jonathan Cape, 2006.Description: 232 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780224080514 (pbk.) :
0224080512 (pbk.) :

Subject(s):

Bechdel, Alison, 1960- -- Childhood and youth -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Fiction

Genre/Form:

Graphic novels.

DDC classification:

741.5973 BEC 22

Fiction notes: Click to open in new window

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	741.5973 BEC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100605758

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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**

Formerly CIP. Uk

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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 .