Fun Home
A Family Tragicomic
$33.32
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2006
Summary
The bestselling memoir from a cult favourite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books.
Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times, and People.
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 restor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224080514 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0224080512 |
| Author: | Alison Bechdel |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2006 |
| Weight: | 429g |
| Dimensions: | 227mm x 148mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
Bulging with literary allusions from Proust to Scott Fitzgerald, Fun Home is a book that demands to be read again and again.
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 *
An astonishing advertisement for this emerging literary form * Entertainment Weekly *
A beautiful, assured piece of work… Bechdel’s cartooning has transmuted [her father’s] life and death into an extraordinary book * Salon.com *
A work of passion… It’s perhaps one of the best books I’ve read that explores sexuality and identity * Writing Magazine *
Bechdel’s childhood and youthful reckoning with her own sexuality is…by turns, hilarious, profound and affecting * i, Christmas Gift Guide 2025 *
Every single frame of Fun Home is packed with meaning that’s intensely personal for Bechdel, yet impactful and thought-provoking…to readers * Cambridge Edition *
About The Author
Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel is the author of the bestselling memoir Fun Home- A Family Tragicomic and, most recently, Are You My Mother? 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 pre-eminent 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.
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