Fun home : a family tragicomic / Alison Bechdel.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Bechdel, Alison, 1960- author, artist.

Contributor:

• Steven Rothman Collection of Comics, Cartoons, and Graphic Novels (University of Pennsylvania)
• Comics Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
• Graphic Works Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• United States.
• Bechdel, Alison, 1960---Childhood and youth--Comic books, strips, etc.
• Cartoonists--Family relationships--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.
• Homosexuality--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.
• Closeted gay people--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.
• Families--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.
• Fathers and daughters--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.
• Homosexuality.
• Bechdel, Alison, 1960-.
• Family Relations.
• homosexuality.
• Fathers and daughters.
• Families.
• Closeted gay people.
• Cartoonists.
• Bechdel, Alison, 1960---Comic books, strips, etc.
• Cartoonists--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.

Medical Subjects:

• Bechdel, Alison, 1960-.
• Family Relations.
• Homosexuality.

Genre:

• Graphic novels.
• Autobiographies (literary works)
• Comics (Graphic works)
• Autobiographies.
• graphic novels.
• LGBTQ+ comics.
• Autobiographical comics.
• Gay comics.
• Lesbian comics.
• Biographies.
• LGBTQ+ comics

Penn Provenance:

• Bechdel, Alison (autograph)
• Rothman, Steven D. (donor) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

232 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First Mariner books edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : A Mariner Book, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2007]

Summary:

This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. 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.

Contents:

• 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.

Notes:

• American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards, 2007
• Lambda Literary Awards - Lesbian Memoir/Biography, Winner, 2007
• American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards, 2007.

Local Notes:

• Penn Libraries Rare copy signed by author.
• Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version: Bechdel, Alison, 1960- Fun home.

ISBN:

• 0618871713
• 9780618871711
• 9780618477944
• 0618477942

OCLC:

62127870

Publisher Number:

9780618477944

Online:

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description
• Publisher description
• http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/
• http://www.npr.org/2015/08/17/432569415/lesbian-cartoonist-alison-bechdel-countered-dads-secrecy-by-being-out-and-open
• https://twitter.com/alisonbechdel
• http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/alison-bechdel-on-fun-homes-tony-award-triumph-20150618