An edition of Fun Home (2006)

Fun Home

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An edition of Fun Home (2006)

Fun Home

  • 4.05 ·
  • 37 Ratings
  • 183 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 64 Have read

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.

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Cover of: Fun Home
Fun Home
Oct 07, 2015, Carlsen Verlag GmbH
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Cover of: Fun home
Fun home: a family tragicomic
2006, Houghton Mifflin
in English
Cover of: Fun Home
Fun Home
2006, Houghton Mifflin Company
in English
Cover of: Fun Home
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
2006, Houghton Mifflin Company
Hardcover in English

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Library of Congress
PN6727.B3757Z46 2006, PN6727.B3757 Z46 2006

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL35660251M
Internet Archive
funhomefamilytra00bech_1
ISBN 13
9780618477944
LCCN
2005030304
OCLC/WorldCat
62127870

First Sentence

"LIKE MANY FATHERS, MINE COULD OCCASIONALLY BE PREVAILED ON FOR A SPOT OF "AIRPLANE.""

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