Meticulously wrought, with attention to every single detail in every single panel, this memoir reveals itself fairly early on as a dual "coming out" story of Bechdel and her father. The writer/artist was raised in a marvellously retro setting—a refurbished mansion kitted out like a Russian estate, with a snobbish bookworm for a father and an upper-class actress manqué for a mother (both of whom taught high-school English). The intent is always to make print as compelling as the pictorials they are made to convey. I LOVED this book. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. The Things They Buried. Fun Home refers both to the funeral parlor, where he put makeup on the corpses and arranged the flowers, and the family’s meticulously restored gothic revival house, filled with gilt and lace, where he liked to imagine himself a 19th-century aristocrat. $9.99 . The narrative ... excellent art and vocabulary that mirror the family. Alison Bechdel (Author) ... Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the "Fun Home." Works doubly as one hugely terrific autobiography & a megaengaging graphic novel. search results for this author. Analysis : Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic, By Allison Bechdel 1762 Words | 8 Pages. The narrative ... Consulter l'avis complet, excellent art and vocabulary that mirror the family. The story attempts grand parallels between the author and her father, Shatters all my preconceptions of the graphic novel, reassures me of the form’s capacity for dense literally allusiveness, intellectual analysis and philosophical ponderings. The Complex Home Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, is a graphic memoir written and illustrated with an elaborate process by Allison Bechdel. Houghton Mifflin, 2007. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Since 1983 she has been chronicling the lives of various characters in the fictionalized “Dykes to Watch Out For” strip, “one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period” (Ms.). A celebrated memoir, made into a Tony-award-winning musical. To see what your friends thought of this book, [ Fun Home is Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir of growing up with her emotionally distant and closeted gay father, Bruce.. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic By Alison Bechdel Houghton Mifflin, 2006. Astute, cheeky & enthralling, it brings together disparate themes like 'Wind in the Willows" & "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "Catcher in the Rye", as well as A Chorus Line & Joyce's Ulysses: pretty much a choose-your-own-literature type adventure that possibly every single reader of this flawless book could relate to. Other Editions of This Title: Prebound (6/1/2007) Paperback, Spanish (11/29/2016) Paperback (10/1/2006) Description. The name of the book Fun Home is the nickname for the Bechdel's family business which happens to be a funeral home. I've been meaning to read it for years. FUN HOME A FAMILY TRAGICOMIC is the latest work from the highly skilled, insightful, neurotic and wry-humored pen of Alison Bechdel, best known for her "Dykes to Watch Out For" comic strip. The subtitle of Fun Home – “A Family Tragicomic” – captures a number of aspects of the book. June 5th 2007 It's not overly pretty. “I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Meticulously wrought, with attention to every single detail in every single panel, this memoir reveals itself fairly early on as a dual "coming out" story of Bechdel and her father. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published (2) Do they actually talk to each other? The title could possibly also take after the fact Alison's father was a tyrant in the household and is simply a sarcastic title to show how it was the exact opposite from being fun. Start by marking “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic” as Want to Read: Error rating book. (And by adult, I mean for grown-ups, NOT porn.) Whereas most graphic novels are quick, fun reads, this is unlike anything I've read before because it’s so rich with meaning. Mostly, is there sexual violence? 'Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic,' by Alison Bechdel. A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. In the narrator's logic, her coming out of the closet prompted her father's suicide four months later. Many Thanks to Margaret who recommended this book to me! just insert "Fun Home" in place of "House of Leaves" in Mickey's review: Graphic novels are outside my comfort zone; I'm never sure where to rest my eyes on the page. Xaneiro-Febreiro 2020 (Con Spoilers), Clube de Lectura. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. This memoir can probably best be described as a spiral, where the story turns in on itself, then jumps back out to a previous point on the spiral, then turns back in towards the center. Alison Bechdel. To say that it is an accomplished work of art and memorable story is not to say that any of the members of Bechdel's family are warm and inviting; to the contrary, the often blisteringly candid tone with which she tells her story reveals that none of the Bechdels are easy to get along with (well, her brothers are very peripheral to this story, which leads me to suspect they were not all that interested in being talked about in their sister's story), including Bechdel. I loved the frequent literary references. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomedy is a memoir chronicling the author’s coming out/coming-of-age story in the form of a graphic novel. The theme of lesbianism and Bechdel's father suicidal tendency has raised some controversy. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.”, “It was not a triumphal return. by Mariner Books. Alison Bechdel (Author) 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,860 ratings. I was really surprised how drawn into it I was. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. 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