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Fun home : a family tragicomic (Record no. 81802)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0224080512
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Personal name Bechdel, Alison
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Title Fun home : a family tragicomic
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Jonathan Cape
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2006
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 232 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm. (pbk)
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. One of the most eagerly anticipated graphic memoirs of recent years, Fun Home is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, 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 his male students and the family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.
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Koha issues (borrowed), all copies 1
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