Fun home : a family tragicomic
(Book)
Author
Published
Boston : A Mariner Book, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2007].
Edition
First Mariner Books edition.
ISBN
9780618477944, 0618477942, 9780618871711, 0618871713, 9781417823147, 1417823143
Physical Desc
232 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
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Status
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Belmont Beech St. - Adult | GRAPHIC BEC | Billed |
Belmont Beech St. - Young Adult | Y READING LIST BEC | Storage |
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Acton - Young Adult | Graphic Biography Bechdel, A. | On Shelf |
Arlington - Adult | GRAPHIC 818.6 BEC | On Shelf |
Arlington - Adult | GRAPHIC 818.6 BEC | On Shelf |
Arlington - Adult | GRAPHIC 818.6 BEC | Checked Out |
Arlington Fox - Adult | GRAPHIC 818.6 BEC | On Shelf |
More Details
Published
Boston : A Mariner Book, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2007].
Format
Book
Edition
First Mariner Books edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780618477944, 0618477942, 9780618871711, 0618871713, 9781417823147, 1417823143
UPC
9780618477944
Notes
Description
This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, 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 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 adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.--From publisher description.
Action
Collated,20090618,Complete,UkLNAL
Awards
American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards, 2007
Subjects
LC Subjects
Autobiographies.
Bechdel, Alison, -- 1960- -- Childhood and youth -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Cartoonists -- Family relationships -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Closeted gay people -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Comics (Graphic works)
Families -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Fathers and daughters -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Graphic novels.
Homosexuality -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Bechdel, Alison, -- 1960- -- Childhood and youth -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Cartoonists -- Family relationships -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Closeted gay people -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Comics (Graphic works)
Families -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Fathers and daughters -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Graphic novels.
Homosexuality -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Bechdel, A. (20075). Fun home: a family tragicomic (First Mariner Books edition.). A Mariner Book, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bechdel, Alison, 1960-. 20075. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. A Mariner Book, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bechdel, Alison, 1960-. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic A Mariner Book, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 20075.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic First Mariner Books edition., A Mariner Book, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 20075.
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