The intent is always to make print as compelling as the pictorials they are made to convey. Find the perfect Fun Home Book stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. (And by adult, I mean for grown-ups, NOT porn.) Works doubly as one hugely terrific autobiography & a megaengaging graphic novel. Here's something I don't get to say very often: I liked the Broadway musical better than the comic. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel tracing her journey from young girl to young adult as she comes to grips with her own lesbian sexuality, her father Bruce ’s (most likely) suicide, and his secret homosexuality or bisexuality that he kept hidden throughout his life while having affairs with underage boys.. It’s by Alison Bechdel and I hadn’t initially realised I knew her name from the Bechdel test. Fun Home: A Family Tragic... . Meticulously wrought, with attention to every single detail in every single panel, this memoir reveals itself fairly early on as a dual "coming out" story of Bechdel and her father. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and Amazon Prime. (Prices may vary for AK and HI.). My Fight for Recovery: A Story of Overcoming Life-Threatening Brain Surgery, The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Collector's Editions), Finding My Way Home: A Journey to Discover Hope and a Life of Purpose, His Grace Is Sufficient! Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, in 2006 she became a best-selling and critically acclaimed author with her graphic memoir Fun Home. I went out and bought this book immediately after hearing a paper on it at a recent conference. Brilliant. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Fun home is what she and her brothers called the family-owned funeral home her dad ran. Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2015. I don't typically read graphic novels, not because I dislike the genre or haven't read some brilliant graphic novels in the past. I found the drawings very transparent; they weren't screaming "look at my drawing", but "look at what my drawings are of". Mariner Books; Reprint edition (June 5, 2007), Previous page of related Sponsored Products, Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2015. "Fun Home must be the most ingeniously compact, hyper-verbose example of autobiography to have been produced. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. The writer/artist was raised in a marvellously retro setting—a refurbished mansion kitted out like a Russian estate, with a snobbish bookworm for a father and an upper-class actress manqué for a mother (both of whom taught high-school English). 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