Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Bechdel, Alison

ISBN 10: 1417823143 ISBN 13: 9781417823147

Publisher: Turtleback Books, 2007

Synopsis

Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and funny, readers are drawn into a daughters complex yearning for her father. Apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned fun home, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books.

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Review:

"If David Sedaris could draw, and if Bleak House had been a little funnier, you'd have Alison Bechdel's Fun Home." --Amy Bloom, author of A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You

"One of the very best graphic novels ever."

"Alison Bechdel - she"s one of the best, one to watch out for." --Harvey Pekar

"[Alison Bechdel] hits notes that resemble Jeanette Winterson at her best...She's made a story that's quiet [and] dignified."

"Brave and forthright and insightful--exactly what Alison Bechdel does best." --Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina

"Stupendous...mesmerizing...The details...are devastatingly captured by an artist in total control of her craft." --Chip Kidd, author of The Cheese Monkeys

"Alison Bechdel - she's one of the best, one to watch out for." --Harvey Pekar

"Graphic storytelling at its most profound." --a Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of 2006

"İAlison Bechdel¨ hits notes that resemble Jeanette Winterson at her best...She's made a story that's quiet İand¨ dignified."

"One of the best memoirs of the decade ... at once hypercontrolled and utterly intimate." --New York Magazine, 10 Best Books of 2006

From the Publisher:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Turtleback Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1417823143
• ISBN 13: 9781417823147
• Binding: School & Library Binding
• Number of pages: 240