Fun home : a family tragicomic / Alison Bechdel.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780618477944
- ISBN: 0618477942
- ISBN: 9780618871711
- ISBN: 0618871713
- ISBN: 9781417823147
- ISBN: 1417823143
- Physical Description: 232 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ©2006.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Old father, old artificer -- A happy death -- That old catastrophe -- In the shadow of young girls in flower -- The canary-colored caravan of death -- The ideal husband -- The antihero's journey. |
Summary, etc.: | "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 Note: | American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards, 2007 American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards, 2007. |
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Subject: | Bechdel, Alison, 1960- > Comic books, strips, etc. Cartoonists > United States > Comic books, strips, etc. |
Genre: | Graphic novels. Comics (Graphic works) |
Available copies
- 32 of 37 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Silas Bronson Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 37 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | GN FIC BECHDEL, A (Text) | 34005097901754 | Adult Graphic Novel | Available | - |