The Resource Fun home : a family tragicomic, Alison Bechdel
Fun home : a family tragicomic, Alison Bechdel
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The item Fun home : a family tragicomic, Alison Bechdel represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Dallas Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Fun home : a family tragicomic, Alison Bechdel represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Dallas Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's 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.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 232 pages
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780618477944
- Label
- Fun home : a family tragicomic
- Title
- Fun home
- Title remainder
- a family tragicomic
- Statement of responsibility
- Alison Bechdel
- Subject
-
- Bechdel, Alison, 1960- -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Cartoonists
- Cartoonists -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Closeted gay men
- Comic books, strips, etc
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Daughters of gay men
- Fathers of lesbians
- Graphic novels
- Graphic novels
- LGBTQ+ biographies
- LGBTQ+ comics
- LGBTQ+ graphic novels
- Bechdel, Alison, 1960-
- PLP -- Graphic Novels That Pack A Punch -- 2019.02
- PLP -- Sexual minorities -- Biography -- 2018.01
- PLP -- Visual Literacy for Adults -- 2020.11
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Lesbian Studies
- United States
- Lesbian daughters
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's 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.--From publisher description
- Action
- Collated
- Awards note
- American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards, 2007
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1960-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bechdel, Alison
- Dewey number
- 741.5/973
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PN6727.B3757
- LC item number
- Z46 2006
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- comics graphic novels
- NLM call number
- 813.54 Bechdel
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Bechdel, Alison
- Bechdel, Alison
- Cartoonists
- Fathers of lesbians
- Lesbian daughters
- Daughters of gay men
- Closeted gay men
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Lesbian Studies
- Cartoonists
- PLP
- PLP
- PLP
- United States
- Label
- Fun home : a family tragicomic, Alison Bechdel
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 232 pages
- Isbn
- 9780618477944
- Lccn
- 2005030304
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 9780618477944
- Other physical details
- chiefly illustrations
- Stock number
-
- BRO-upg20060522-153
- BRO-cust20060523-153
- BRO-cust20060525-153
- BRO-cust20060531-153
- BRO-cust20060811-153
- BRO-cust20060814-153
- BRO-cust20070104-153
- BRO-cust20090202-137
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocm62127870
- (OCoLC)62127870
- Label
- Fun home : a family tragicomic, Alison Bechdel
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 232 pages
- Isbn
- 9780618477944
- Lccn
- 2005030304
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 9780618477944
- Other physical details
- chiefly illustrations
- Stock number
-
- BRO-upg20060522-153
- BRO-cust20060523-153
- BRO-cust20060525-153
- BRO-cust20060531-153
- BRO-cust20060811-153
- BRO-cust20060814-153
- BRO-cust20070104-153
- BRO-cust20090202-137
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocm62127870
- (OCoLC)62127870
Subject
- Bechdel, Alison, 1960- -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Cartoonists
- Cartoonists -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Closeted gay men
- Comic books, strips, etc
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Daughters of gay men
- Fathers of lesbians
- Graphic novels
- Graphic novels
- LGBTQ+ biographies
- LGBTQ+ comics
- LGBTQ+ graphic novels
- Bechdel, Alison, 1960-
- PLP -- Graphic Novels That Pack A Punch -- 2019.02
- PLP -- Sexual minorities -- Biography -- 2018.01
- PLP -- Visual Literacy for Adults -- 2020.11
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Lesbian Studies
- United States
- Lesbian daughters
Genre
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Graphic novels
- LGBTQ+ biographies
- LGBTQ+ comics
- LGBTQ+ graphic novels
- Comic books, strips, etc
- Biography
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