Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
- ISBN13: 9780618871711
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.
Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the “Fun Home.” It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.
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Rating: 1 / 5
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
I knew she was a cartoonist but did not know the memoir would be in cartoon form. It was reasonably well written but her family members just didn’t come alive for me.
As a lesbian, I found it especially upsetting to read about yet another woman who felt like she had come home when she put on her father’s clothes.
Rating: 1 / 5
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
I live a short distance from Alison Bechdel in Vermont. Perhaps because of this, I have tended to feel as though we share a spiritual bond. This book increased that bond; now I feel as though I am almost welcome as I spend my evenings stalking her through the hills and hollows of Bolton.
Rating: 5 / 5
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
This work was well-drawn, as is all of Bechdel’s work. It was also incredibly boring, kind of aimless, self-absorbed catharsis. I also thought we’d get to know more about her father’s life, thoughts, feelings…along with hers.
I love her other stuff, but this rambling tome just wasn’t for me.
Rating: 2 / 5
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
This autobiography of a cartoonist is done in cartoon form, and some of the scenes are very risqué.
Rating: 5 / 5
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic