Fun home : a family tragicomic /
A memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father--a funeral home director, high school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin,
2007.
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| Edition: | First Mariner books edition. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | A memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father--a funeral home director, high school English teacher, and closeted homosexual. "In this groundbreaking, best-selling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. 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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| Item Description: | Reprint. Originally published: 2006. "A Mariner book." |
| Physical Description: | 232 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Awards: | American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards, 2007. |
| ISBN: | 9780618871711 0618871713 9781417823147 1417823143 1435289285 9781435289284 |