Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by Alison Bechdel

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Title	Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Author	Alison Bechdel
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Tags	comics, women
Collections	Your library
Your review	I agree with the general tenor of reviews I've read on Library Thing: this book is lovely--quite the masterpiece. Fun Home is one of finest combinations of literature and art I have ever encountered. Bechdel's simple, elegant drawings allow the reader to enter into her family and their house, and her use of "mixed media" gives the comic an authentic, historic feel. Most impressive to me is the way Bechdel weaves literature and mythology into her book: comparing her father to F. Scott Fitzgerald, and telling her story of sexual discovery through literature. For some people (probably a fair percentage of LibraryThingers) life and literature are deeply intertwined: this, contrary to much of what we've been told, is cause for celebration, not shame--and this is something Bechdel understands deeply.
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Publication	Houghton Mifflin (2006), Hardcover
Publication date	2006
ISBN	0618477942 / 9780618477944
LC classification 1	PN6727.B3757 Z46
Dewey 1	741.5/973 22
Subjects	Authors, American › 20th century › Biography Bechdel, Alison, 1960- › Comic books, strips, etc Cartoonists › United States › Comic books, strips, etc Graphic novels Stonewall Book Award
Primary language eng	English
Secondary language	(blank)
Original language
Date acquired	2006-09-16
Date started	2006-09-24
Date finished	2006-09-24
Summary 1	Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (2006)
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BCID	XXX-
Number of copies	1
Citation	MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, Wikipedia citation
Data source	Amazon.com

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