Fun home : a family tragicomic
(Graphic Novels & Nonfiction)
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Edition
1st Mariner Books ed.
Physical Desc
232 pages : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
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Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
GRAPHIC MEMOIR BECHDEL, A
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GRAPHIC MEMOIR BECHDEL, A
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Format
Graphic Novels & Nonfiction
Edition
1st Mariner Books ed.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"A Mariner book."
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.
Awards
American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards, 2007
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Bechdel, A. (2007). Fun home: a family tragicomic (1st Mariner Books ed.). Houghton Mifflin.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bechdel, Alison, 1960-. 2007. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Houghton Mifflin.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bechdel, Alison, 1960-. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 1st Mariner Books ed., Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
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