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171129b2006 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780618871711 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
741.5973 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Bechdel, Alison |
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352920 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Fun home: a family tragicomic |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2006 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
232 p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
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.<br/><br/>This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form.<br/><br/>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 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 adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.<br/><br/>http://www.hmhco.com/shop/books/Fun-Home/9780618871711 |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Bechdel, Alison, - 1960 - Comic books, strips, etc. |
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352921 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Lesbians - Family relationships |
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352922 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Fathers and daughters |
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352923 |
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Graphic novels |
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352924 |
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Cartoonists - United States - Comic books, strips, etc. |
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352925 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Item type |
Books |
