Are You My Mother?
A Comic Drama
$62.86
- Hardcover
304 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2012
Summary
An expansive, moving and captivating graphic memoir from ‘one of the finest cartoonists at work today’.
Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a literary phenomenon. While Fun Home explored Bechdel’s relationship with her father, a closeted homosexual, this memoir is about her mother - a voracious reader, a music lover, a passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel’s childhood… and wh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224093521 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0224093525 |
| Author: | Alison Bechdel |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2012 |
| Weight: | 691g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 160mm x 25mm |
You Can Find This Book In
What They're Saying
Critics Review
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.
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 *
I emotionally lost myself in this book… It made me realise that people aren’t always perfect. – Tavi Gevinson * ELLE *
It’s a beautiful (and beautifully illustrated) look at the complexity and dysfunctionality of family through a unique lens – and frames things in such a way that you can’t help but re-examine your own relationships, too. – Emily Reynolds * Stylist *
Are You My Mother? is a work of the most humane kind of genius, bravely going right to the heart of things: why we are who we are. It’s also incredibly funny. And visually stunning. And page-turningly addictive. And heartbreaking. – Jonathan Safran Foer
As absorbing as it is graced with a deceptive lightness of touch, it is clever, brilliantly pieced together, and utterly unusual. – Robert Collins * Sunday Times *
One of the chief pleasures of this book is how the words and pictures collaborate to gesture at a territory that neither might reach alone. – Tim Martin * Telegraph *
Many of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers. Alison Bechdel has written a graphic novel about this, sort of like a comic book by Virginia Woolf. You won’t believe it until you read it - and you must! – Gloria Steinem
Pure bliss. – Lisa Appiganesi * Observer *
Bechdel’s engaging, original graphic memoir explores her troubled relationship with her distant mother. * New York Times *
A complex, fascinating and intellectually rich memoir. – Larushka Ivan-Zadek * Metro *
About The Author
Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel is the author of the bestselling memoir Fun Home- A Family Tragicomic, which was named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times, and People among others. 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.
Returns
This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.