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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 741.5973 EAN: 9780618477944 ISBN: 0618477942 Label: Houghton Mifflin Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: June 08, 2006 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Studio: Houghton Mifflin Sales Rank: 78267 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. 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 a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Rich and impressive - doesn't feel skimpy like other graphic novelsWith relatively few exceptions, one of the reasons I haven't really gone back to the graphic novel scene has been that empty feeling after going through dozens of pages of pictures without the sense of having really "read" anything. This isn't a pot-shot at the genre, but rather an expression of the frustration that comes with buying something that costs $35.00 but feeling like I got about $10 worth of reading out of it. This could be a crass way of looking at the problem, but it's rare that artwork ... Read More Rating: - Great Book, Worth ReadingThe book might seem tedious at first, but its worth reading to the end, do not give up halfway like i almost did. This is by far one of teh best books i have ever read. In no way a simple story, it weaves an intricate narrative, that gets to a huge level of personal details that leave you feeling like you know the author more than anybody else you know in your life. Rating: - The complexities of identityI live an hour away from Beech Creek, Alison Bechdel's tiny hometown and the setting for much of her graphic memoir Fun Home. I've always found the area oppressive: dark, looming mountains casting perpetual shadows on impoverished, dying valley towns. But after reading Fun Home, I revisited Beech Creek, to see Bechdel's childhood home and the grave of her father Bruce, and to remind myself of how cruelly ironic life can be. Bruce Bechdel, a man who loves literature (in his early days ... Read More Rating:  - disappointingI 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: - Fun Home: A Family TragicomicAn absolutely brilliant, hard to put down and very moving story. I go back to it often and think about it always. Beautiful, witty, hilarious. Browse for similar items by category:
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