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| Original Title: | Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic |
| ISBN: | 0618871713 (ISBN13: 9780618871711) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Pennsylvania(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Stonewall Book Award for Non-Fiction (2007), Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction (2007), Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography (2007), Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Reality-Based Work (2007) |
Alison Bechdel
Paperback | Pages: 232 pages Rating: 4.08 | 121193 Users | 8762 Reviews
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In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.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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| Title | : | Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic |
| Author | : | Alison Bechdel |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 232 pages |
| Published | : | June 5th 2007 by Mariner Books (first published June 8th 2006) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Autobiography. Memoir. Comics |
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Ratings: 4.08 From 121193 Users | 8762 ReviewsCrit Out Of Books Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
ETA: This is from the comment section, where somebody rightfully called me out on not bringing proof of Fun Home's badness, and said I just don't understand Bechdel's "stylistic choices". This is me bringing the receipts, including diagrams which I very poorly made in paint. If you just want the review, skip this part.(view spoiler)[Fun Home is definitely made of Bechdel's stylistic choices, I just happen to think the end product of these stylistic choices is graphically incredibly boring.Worse,THIS JUST IN : P BRYANT FAILS HIP GRAPHIC NOVEL TESTFun Home, a cripplingly hip graphic novel, is....Yes?It's....YES??Well, let's see, it's, you know, all right, good, yes, nods head, hummphs into beard, pulls earlobe, raises eyebrows, waves hands in a vague direction, shifts about in seat. You know. Don't get me wrong. It was good. Yes. Cool, clever, really hip, I mean, really, as far as I can tell, my hipometer needs a new battery I think; it was not the least bit funny, but that's not such a
Works doubly as one hugely terrific autobiography & a megaengaging graphic novel. In FUN HOME, there is a tremendous longing to merge both of these Arts. The intent is always to make print as compelling as the pictorials they are made to convey. Astute, cheeky & enthralling, it brings together disparate themes like 'Wind in the Willows" & "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "Catcher in the Rye", as well as A Chorus Line & Joyce's Ulysses: pretty much a
Alison Bechdels comic-form autobiography Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic begins and ends with strong textual and visual images of her father. The books first full drawing on the title page of chapter one is, in fact, a recreation of an old photograph of the enigmatic man. It sums up all that is impossible to capture about the mans sexual and emotional being in one frame. As well, it sums up everything that makes this work artistically and thematically remarkable, an important contribution to
Alison Bechdel is a cartoonist, which is an area that sort of fascinates me because I can't draw a consistent comic strip to save my life. Each panel would look different. So when someone can do it convincingly, I'm intrigued. Bechdel intrigues me because not only can she do that, but she can tell her own story in that format. When you decide to write a family memoir that deals with something so complicated such as homosexuality, putting it out there can be really difficult. Then when you decide
UpdatedThis is a terrific book. The graphic memoir format added an extraordinary dimension to the story. (I can't recall ever having read a graphic novel before, so in that sense the entire experience of this book was new to me.)The book was published when Bechdel was in her mid-40s, and tells the story of her own life, up to just before her twentieth birthday, and her fathers life, up to the same point in time, when he was run over by a truck - possibly accidentally, possibly as a suicide.Some
Hmmm...Well, I wanted to read this for some time, mostly because Alison Bechdel is probably one of the more prominent names that both authors and readers are aware of these days due to her test. Anyway, I wanted to like this more than I did. You see, I'm not really a fan of graphic novels, but it worked here to illustrate her points. However, this whole book felt more like a project of self-analysis than a commercial product. It was extremely personal, yet cold and detached--like Alison's
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