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Fun home : a family tragicomic / Alison Bechdel.
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.
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.-- Publisher description.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780618871711
- ISBN: 0618871713
- ISBN: 9781417823147
- ISBN: 1417823143
- Physical Description: 232 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition: First Mariner books edition.
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
- Copyright: ©2006
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Reprint. Originally published: 2006. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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- 32 of 34 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abington Community Library | YOUNG ADULT GRAPHIC 92 BECHDEL (Text) | 50687011527978 | Young Adult Nonfiction | Checked Out | 05/03/2024 |
| Albright Memorial Library | YOUNG ADULT GRAPHIC BECHDEL (Text) | 50686013141374 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Altoona Area Public Library | YAG 741.5 BEC (Text) | 33240003943100 | Young Adult Graphic | Available | - |
| Annie Halenbake Ross Library | 741.5 Bec (Text)
General Note: Booklist March 15,2006
Kirkus March 01,2006
Publ Weekly February 27,2006
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00082144 | ADULT Graphic Novel | Recently Returned | - |
| Annie Halenbake Ross Library | 741.5 Bec (Text)
General Note: Booklist March 15,2006
Kirkus March 01,2006
Publ Weekly February 27,2006
Libr Journal February 15,2006
Local author.
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00082905 | ADULT Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Bethel Tulpehocken Public Library | BEC (Text) | 33249024467916 | Adult Graphic Novel | Available | - |
| Brandywine Community Library | BEC (Text) | 33249016150066 | Adult Graphic Novel | Available | - |
| Cambria County Library | GRAPHIC Bec (Text) | 85131000938846 | CACM Young Adult Graphic Novel | Available | - |
| Friendship Community Library | 741.5 Bec (Text)
General Note: Booklist March 15,2006
Kirkus March 01,2006
Publ Weekly February 27,2006
Libr Journal February 15,2006
Local author.
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00104509 | ADULT Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Friendship Community Library | 741.5 Bec (Text) | 00155485 | ADULT Graphic Novel | Available | - |
