Fun home : a family tragicomic
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Published
Boston : Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin, [2007].
Edition
First Mariner Books edition.
Physical Desc
232 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
741.5 BECHDE 2007
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741.5 BECHDE 2007
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
741.5 BECHDE 2006
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741.5 BECHDE 2006
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction | 741.5 BECHDE 2007 | On Shelf | |
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction | 741.5 BECHDE 2006 | On Hold Shelf | |
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction | 741.5 BECHDE 2007 | Checked Out | May 13, 2024 |
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction | 741.5 BECHDE 2006 | On Shelf |
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Published
Boston : Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin, [2007].
Format
Book
Edition
First Mariner Books edition.
Language
English
Notes
Description
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.
Awards
American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards, Israel Fish Nonfiction award, 2007.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Bechdel, A. (2007). Fun home: a family tragicomic (First Mariner Books edition.). Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bechdel, Alison, 1960-. 2007. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bechdel, Alison, 1960-. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic First Mariner Books edition., Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
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