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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Average rating
4 out of 5
Based on 179,326 Ratings and 13,343 Reviews

Book Description
In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.

Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funer... More
Book Information
PublisherMariner Books
BindingPaperback (8 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages232
ISBN-100618871713
ISBN-13978-0618871711
Publication Date06/05/2007
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About Alison Bechdel (Author) : Alison Bechdel is a published author. Some of the published credits of Alison Bechdel include Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out for.
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8/23/2008 Mira Bartok said: Amazing graphic memoir about gay issues, family, funeral homes, mythology and James Joyce, all rolled into one big delightful and heartbreaking book.
tags: I read, Inspired me, I recommend

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8/31/2007 Elizabeth Bluemle tagged as: masters of their craft

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