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Fun home : a family tragicomic / Alison Bechdel.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks PN 6729 .B3757 Z46 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bechdel, Alison, 1960- author, artist.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bechdel, Alison, 1960---Childhood and youth--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Bechdel, Alison.
- Cartoonists--Family relationships--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Cartoonists.
- Homosexuality--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Homosexuality.
- Closeted gay people--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Closeted gay people.
- Families--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Families.
- Fathers and daughters--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Medicine--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Medicine.
- Graphic novels.
- Bechdel, Alison, 1960-.
- Family Relations.
- homosexuality.
- Cartoonists--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- United States.
- Coming out.
- Closeted gay men.
- Lesbian autobiographies.
- Medical Subjects:
- Bechdel, Alison, 1960-.
- Family Relations.
- Homosexuality.
- Genre:
- Graphic novels.
- Comics (Graphic works)
- graphic novels.
- Autobiographical comics.
- LGBTQ+ comics.
- Gay comics.
- Lesbian comics.
- Autobiographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 232 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First Mariner books edition.
- Other Title:
- Family tragicomic
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
- Summary:
- A memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father--a funeral home director, high school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.
- 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:
- Reprint. Originally published: 2006.
- "A Mariner book."
- American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards, 2007.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bechdel, Alison, 1960- Fun home.
- ISBN:
- 9780618871711
- 0618871713
- 9781417823147
- 1417823143
- 1435289285
- 9781435289284
- OCLC:
- 884342730
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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