Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
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Author: Alison BechdelEdition: Paperback
Published: 2007-06-05
ISBN: 0618871713
Number of pages: 232
Publisher: Mariner Books
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Book Review: A graphic novel steeped in literary reference.
Summary: 5 Stars
The title had the effect of putting me off from buying this. Bechdel wasn't someone I was familiar with, so my suspicions of an arch, disgruntled rant were forefront, and now fortunately unfounded. Having read it twice, and doubtless will again, I can't ever before recall so many reviews stuffed onto/into the covers of one book, and all of them so closely matching my own impressions. As an exploration of a father/daughter relationship, Fun Home uses the tack of revisiting telling moments with underlying illuminations. Steeped as Bechdel and her aloof father were in literature (here specifically Proust, Wilde, and Joyce) she employs the ideas of shared authors to assist in the formulation of a familial bond, separate from, yet not ignoring her two younger brothers and their resolute, if somewhat mysterious, mother.
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Award-winning comics artist Alison Bechdel has been known for decades as "one of the best, one to watch out for," in the words of Harvey Pekar. Her latest work-the groundbreaking, genre-busting, best-selling graphic narrative Fun Home-has established her as one of Americas most gifted and extraordinary memoirists as well. With its stunning mix of graphic and literary forms, it has garnered exceptional acclaim, receiving exuberant reviews, winning placement on bestseller lists across the country, and claiming seven foreign publishing deals to date. In the wake of this tremendous critical success, Fun Home has also won new readers for Bechdel-on tour for the book she has been greeted by standing-room-only crowds-and the paperback publication will no doubt continue to expand her audience. In Bechdels affecting account of her relationship with her late father, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power. Bechdel grew up in a small Pennsylvania town, in a Victorian house that her father was painstakingly restoring to its period glory. Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the "Fun Home." It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.Arts & Photography Books
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