Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Turtleback School & Library)
Alison Bechdel
(Author)
Description
Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and funny, readers are drawn into a daughters complex yearning for her father. Apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned fun home, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books.Product Details
Price
$29.40
$27.05
Publisher
Turtleback Books
Publish Date
June 01, 2007
Pages
240
Dimensions
6.1 X 0.9 X 8.8 inches | 1.1 pounds
Language
English
Type
Prebound
EAN/UPC
9781417823147
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About the Author
Alison Bechdel is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of the autobiographical graphic novel memoir Fun Home (Houghton Mifflin, 2006).
Reviews
"If David Sedaris could draw, and if Bleak House had been a little funnier, you'd have Alison Bechdel's Fun Home." --Amy Bloom, author of A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
"One of the very best graphic novels ever."
"Alison Bechdel - she"s one of the best, one to watch out for." --Harvey Pekar
"[Alison Bechdel] hits notes that resemble Jeanette Winterson at her best...She's made a story that's quiet [and] dignified."
"Brave and forthright and insightful--exactly what Alison Bechdel does best." --Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina
"Stupendous...mesmerizing...The details...are devastatingly captured by an artist in total control of her craft." --Chip Kidd, author of The Cheese Monkeys
"Alison Bechdel - she's one of the best, one to watch out for." --Harvey Pekar
"Graphic storytelling at its most profound." --a Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of 2006
"ÝAlison Bechdel¨ hits notes that resemble Jeanette Winterson at her best...She's made a story that's quiet Ýand¨ dignified."
"One of the best memoirs of the decade ... at once hypercontrolled and utterly intimate." --New York Magazine, 10 Best Books of 2006
TIME Best Book of the Year: "A masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds, and their mysterious debts to each other."
"A revelation ... feels like a true literary achievement, something with characters who baffle and disappoint and break hears the way people do in life and in the best of prose."
" Alison Bechdel - she' s one of the best, one to watch out for." --Harvey Pekar
& quot; Alison Bechdel - she& #39; s one of the best, one to watch out for." --Harvey Pekar
"One of the very best graphic novels ever."
"Alison Bechdel - she"s one of the best, one to watch out for." --Harvey Pekar
"[Alison Bechdel] hits notes that resemble Jeanette Winterson at her best...She's made a story that's quiet [and] dignified."
"Brave and forthright and insightful--exactly what Alison Bechdel does best." --Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina
"Stupendous...mesmerizing...The details...are devastatingly captured by an artist in total control of her craft." --Chip Kidd, author of The Cheese Monkeys
"Alison Bechdel - she's one of the best, one to watch out for." --Harvey Pekar
"Graphic storytelling at its most profound." --a Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of 2006
"ÝAlison Bechdel¨ hits notes that resemble Jeanette Winterson at her best...She's made a story that's quiet Ýand¨ dignified."
"One of the best memoirs of the decade ... at once hypercontrolled and utterly intimate." --New York Magazine, 10 Best Books of 2006
TIME Best Book of the Year: "A masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds, and their mysterious debts to each other."
"A revelation ... feels like a true literary achievement, something with characters who baffle and disappoint and break hears the way people do in life and in the best of prose."
" Alison Bechdel - she' s one of the best, one to watch out for." --Harvey Pekar
& quot; Alison Bechdel - she& #39; s one of the best, one to watch out for." --Harvey Pekar
