Fun home : a family tragicomic
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Boston: Mariner Classics 2006. Description: 232p. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780618871711Subject(s): Bechdel, Alison, 1960- -- Comic books, strips, etc | Cartoonists -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States | Autobiographical comics | Autobiography | Comics (Graphic works) | Gay comics | Homosexuality | Family Relations | Fathers and daughters | Lesbian comics | LGBTQ+ comicsDDC classification: 741.5 Online resources: Reviews Summary: 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.
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.
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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.
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.
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