Fun home : a family tragicomic
(Graphic Novel)
Author
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Format
Graphic Novel
Edition
First Mariner Books edition.
ISBN
9780618871711 (pbk.), 0618871713 (pbk.)
Physical Desc
232 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
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Status
Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Fiction - Graphic
B BECHDEL
1 available
B BECHDEL
1 available
North County Branch - Adult Fiction - Graphic
B BECHDEL
1 available
B BECHDEL
1 available
South County Branch - Adult Fiction - Graphic
B BECHDEL
1 available
B BECHDEL
1 available
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Edition
First Mariner Books edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780618871711 (pbk.), 0618871713 (pbk.)
Notes
General Note
"A Mariner book."
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.
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Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Fiction - Graphic | B BECHDEL | Available |
North County Branch - Adult Fiction - Graphic | B BECHDEL | Available |
South County Branch - Adult Fiction - Graphic | B BECHDEL | Available |
Tewksbury Public Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography | B BECHDEL | Available |
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Boonton Holmes Library - Adult Fiction | GRAPHIC FIC BECHDEL | Available |
Chatham Borough-Chatham Township Library - Adult Fiction - Graphic | GRAPHIC FIC BECHDEL | Available |
Florham Park Library - Adult Nonfiction - Graphic | GRAPHIC 741.597 BECHDEL | Available |
Hackettstown Library - Adult Fiction - Graphic | GRAPHIC BECHDEL | Held |
Kinnelon Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography | BIOG BECHDEL | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Bechdel, A. (2007). Fun home: a family tragicomic (First Mariner Books edition.). Houghton Mifflin.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bechdel, Alison, 1960-. 2007. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Houghton Mifflin.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bechdel, Alison, 1960-. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic First Mariner Books edition., Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
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