Fun home: a family tragicomic by Amazonundefined

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DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical.
'A sapphic graphic treat'
The Times
A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you liked Marjane Satrapi's
Persepolis
you'll love this.
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. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.Interweaving between childhood memories, college life and present day, and through narrative that is equally heartbreaking and fiercely funny, Alison looks back on her complex relationship with her father and finds they had more in common than she ever knew.
'A groundbreaking masterpiece'
The Independent
'A finely woven blend of yearning and euphoric fantasy'
Evening Standard
**ONE OF THE
GUARDIAN
'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
Recenzja
Fun Home
and
Are You My Mother?
are the kind of head-spinningly thoughtful and textured works that make you rejoice in the comic-book form.
Daily Telegraph
Bulging with literary allusions from Proust to Scott Fitzgerald,
Fun Home
is a book that demands to be read again and again.
Royal Academy Magazine
One of the very best graphic novels ever
Booklist
A brilliant, bleakly hilarious memoir in comic-book form
Time
A beautiful, assured piece of work... Bechdel's cartooning has transmuted [her father's] life and death into an extraordinary book
Salon.com
O autorze
Alison Bechdel
is the author of two internationally acclaimed graphic memoirs,
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
and
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama.
Fun Home
was a
New York Times
bestseller, won an Eisner Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was named a Best Book of the 21st Century by the
Guardian,
was adapted to a broadway musical which won five Tony Awards and is currently being adapted for cinema. For twenty-five years, she wrote and drew the comic strip
Dykes to Watch Out For
, a visual chronicle of modern life - queer and otherwise - considered 'one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre'. Alison Bechdel is guest editor of
Best American Comics
, 2011, and has drawn comics for
Slate
,
McSweeney's
,
Entertainment Weekly
,
Granta
, and
The New York Times Book Review
. In 2014 she was named as one of the recipients of the MacArthur 'Genius' Award.http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/