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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Paperback – 1 December 2006

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The bestselling memoir from a cult favourite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books.

Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times, and People.


DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical.

'A sapphic graphic treat' The Times

A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you liked Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis you'll love this.

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 the family babysitter. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.

Interweaving between childhood memories, college life and present day, and through narrative that is equally heartbreaking and fiercely funny, Alison looks back on her complex relationship with her father and finds they had more in common than she ever knew.


'A groundbreaking masterpiece' The Independent

'A finely woven blend of yearning and euphoric fantasy' Evening Standard

**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
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    Fun Home
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    English
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    JONATHAN CAPE & BH - TRADE
  5. Publication date
    1 December 2006
  6. Dimensions
    15 x 1.5 x 22.8 cm
  7. ISBN-10
    0224080512
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0224080514
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Fun Home and Are You My Mother? are the kind of head-spinningly thoughtful and textured works that make you rejoice in the comic-book form. ― Daily Telegraph

Bulging with literary allusions from Proust to Scott Fitzgerald, Fun Home is a book that demands to be read again and again. ― Royal Academy Magazine

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A brilliant, bleakly hilarious memoir in comic-book form ― Time

A beautiful, assured piece of work... Bechdel's cartooning has transmuted [her father's] life and death into an extraordinary book ― Salon.com

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A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favourite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ JONATHAN CAPE & BH - TRADE; 1st edition (1 December 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0224080512
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0224080514
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15 x 1.5 x 22.8 cm
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ALISON BECHDEL has been a careful archivist of her own life and kept a journal since she was ten. 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.). The strip is syndicated in 50 alternative newspapers, translated into multiple languages, and collected into a book series with a quarter of a million copies in print. Utne magazine has listed DTWOF as “one of the greatest hits of the twentieth century.”

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Elspeth Read
5.0 out of 5 stars ended too fast!
Reviewed in Canada on 9 July 2023
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Having been a Bechdel fan for many years, this book was a real treat. Understanding her life growing up as a great deal of depth to all of her other books.
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C. Wong
5.0 out of 5 stars Bad Childhood, Great Book!
Reviewed in the United States on 24 September 2022
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Love graphics and love memoirs, Alison Bechel had a terrible childhood. Her father was the third generation in the funeral business. It is creepy enough to be around funeral decor and have t0 be very solemn always in public but but little kids having to prep the viewing room with the folding chairs and always be immaculare is a fun part of childhood.

I had the experience of working in the upstair apartment of a funeral home temporarily. My first husband's law practice was there. The wallpaper and carpet were funeral home style. The worst part was that I know where the caskets had been.

Alison's farher was eccentric and a perfectionist, not one to give warm hugs. He had affairs with the men he hired and I will never forgive for demanding help with the embalming of a client. Not much help but just being there with a naked corpse is not a good experience for any child.

This book is one of deeply troubled childhood. The graphics and writing was top notch and now I want to read her book about her mother.
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5.0 out of 5 stars brutally honest memoir
Reviewed in the Netherlands on 9 August 2022
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It’s poetic and brutally honest at the same time. I enjoyed my time with this memoir and feel that I have gotten to know the author better whilst reading.
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João Junior
5.0 out of 5 stars Um trabalho ao mesmo tempo incrivelmente pessoal e perturbadoramente artístico
Reviewed in Brazil on 28 February 2020
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É impressionante porque é ao mesmo tempo uma narrativa familiar muito íntima mas uma análise em alguns momentos até bem imparcial de uma pessoa tão próxima como o próprio pai. A arte é incrível, a narrativa é brilhante e se você tem problemas com seu pai você provavelmente vai chorar algumas vezes.
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Ola
5.0 out of 5 stars Dobra robota
Reviewed in Poland on 21 March 2021
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Szybka dostawa. Książka przyszła w idealnym stanie. Sposób pakowania (kartonowe pudełko typu tear off) bardzo mi przypadło do gustu.
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