One of the most eagerly anticipated graphic memoirs of recent years,Fun Home is a darkly funny family tale,pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison 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 the family babysitter.
Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny,we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence,the denouement is swift,graphic,and redemptive.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780224080514Number of pages: 240Weight: 431 gDimensions: 228 x 150 x 15 mm
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'It is a pioneering work,pushing two genres (comics and memoir) in multiple new directions,with panels that combine the detail and technical proficiency of R. Crumb with a seriousness,emotional complexity and innovation completely its own... A comic book for lovers of words! Bechdel's rich language and precise images combine to create a lush piece of work - a memoir where concision and detail are melded for maximum,obsessive density'- TheNew York Times
'One of the very best graphic novels ever'- Booklist
'A brilliant,bleakly hilarious memoir in comic-book form'- Time
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