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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Edition 001)
by: Alison Bechdel

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780618871711
ISBN: 0618871713
Label: Mariner Books
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 232
Publication Date: October 29, 2008
Publisher: Mariner Books
Sales Rank: 10884
Studio: Mariner Books

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In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.

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.

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- Rich and impressive - doesn't feel skimpy like other graphic novels
With relatively few exceptions, one of the reasons I haven't really gone back to the graphic novel scene has been that empty feeling after going through dozens of pages of pictures without the sense of having really "read" anything. This isn't a pot-shot at the genre, but rather an expression of the frustration that comes with buying something that costs $35.00 but feeling like I got about $10 worth of reading out of it. This could be a crass way of looking at the problem, but it's rare that artwork can cover up poor storytelling.

I held off reading Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home" until recently, and regret waiting since it is even better than the hype. Non-graphic-novel types frequently name drop specific titles to appear a bit more edgy (can't do that with "Watchmen" anymore, though, as it's now a movie) and in the know, so I stayed away from "Fun Home" for fear of overexcited buzz. This is definitely ... Read More

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- Great Book, Worth Reading
The book might seem tedious at first, but its worth reading to the end, do not give up halfway like i almost did. This is by far one of teh best books i have ever read. In no way a simple story, it weaves an intricate narrative, that gets to a huge level of personal details that leave you feeling like you know the author more than anybody else you know in your life.

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- The complexities of identity
I live an hour away from Beech Creek, Alison Bechdel's tiny hometown and the setting for much of her graphic memoir Fun Home. I've always found the area oppressive: dark, looming mountains casting perpetual shadows on impoverished, dying valley towns. But after reading Fun Home, I revisited Beech Creek, to see Bechdel's childhood home and the grave of her father Bruce, and to remind myself of how cruelly ironic life can be.

Bruce Bechdel, a man who loves literature (in his early days he identified with F. Scott Fitzgerald; in his final days he reads Proust), an aesthete with a taste for the baroque detail of the Victorian era, and a creative and versatile designer of interior and exterior landscapes, is born and lives in rural central Pennsylvania, running the family funeral home and teaching at the local high school. He never quite fits in. Always sun-tanned and exquisitely dressed (no plaid hunter's ... Read More

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- disappointing
I knew she was a cartoonist but did not know the memoir would be in cartoon form. It was reasonably well written but her family members just didn't come alive for me.
As a lesbian, I found it especially upsetting to read about yet another woman who felt like she had come home when she put on her father's clothes.

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