Fun Home

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• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic By Alison Bechdel

  Putting the fun back in funeral and spicing it with tenderness, grit and regret, Alison Bechdel's memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic grabs you from the first page and never lets go. It's like reading someone's diary, because essentially it is someo ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

• Fun Home

  Don’t expect Yet More Dykes to Watch Out For from this smart, moving, attractively drawn, and decidedly serious memoir in comics form. Alison Bechdel's long-running Dykes strip is witty enough for anyone—the lesbian Doonesbury, if you like—but this f ... (read full critics)

  raintaxi published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

5 Reviews

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  GGNFT nominee. One of the best (and most important) graphic novels of the year.

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  Little J said on Sep 21, 2006 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  I don't know where to start with this review. This book was a wonderful example of non-linear narrative. The story jumped around in time from episode to episode but while the story didn't progress in time the depth and understanding of the people and their relationships in it increased with each ne ... (continue)

  I don't know where to start with this review. This book was a wonderful example of non-linear narrative. The story jumped around in time from episode to episode but while the story didn't progress in time the depth and understanding of the people and their relationships in it increased with each new chapter revealing another layer of depth. Each chapter also had it's own literary theme, referring to a novel the author or her father liked and how it reflected their lives. (I must admit I found the Proust one the most dull but that's probably cause I've not read Proust). It was a very interesting, honest and insightful book. Definitely one I'd recommend.

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  Robot-mel said on Jun 27, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  Every chapter tells the same story, again & again: the relationship between the author and her father. Always with new details, deeper feelings, some humor, literary citations (Proust, Joyce) & comparisons. Wonderful.

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  chioru - ki said on May 16, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  so good
  references to Camus, Proust, Ulysses and more litterature

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  Serena Borsello said on Apr 4, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  With so many awards, I thought this could be good. Well, I had to force myself to finish it. My wife did like it though.

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  jelabino said on Nov 13, 2009 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 240 Pages
• Edition: 1
• ISBN-10: 0618871713
• ISBN-13: 9780618871711
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Pub date: Jun 05, 2007
• Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書, Livres Français, Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Livros em Português, llibres en català, Libri Italiani, Danske bøger

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