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A carregar... Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006)por Alison Bechdel
  
» 37 mais Top Five Books of 2013 (239) Books Read in 2020 (268) Books Read in 2014 (139) Top Five Books of 2014 (512) Female Author (204) 100 New Classics (37) Top Five Books of 2016 (644) Favourite Books (811) Books Read in 2015 (1,383) Books Read in 2019 (1,548) 2000s decade (47) Read This Next (44) Female Protagonist (715) Swinging Seventies (73) Unshelved Book Clubs (76) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Fun Home is a graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel. Bechdel grew up in Pennsylvania where her family ran a funeral home they called the Fun House. Her family was a bit dysfunctional and the memoir focuses on her relationship with her father, who was a closeted gay man who had affairs with young men, and her realization that she was a lesbian. While the book dealt with some deep, dark issues, the book did have a touch of humor to break up the serious topics. It presented some complicated family relationships in a manner that was not trivialized due to the format. It is a great example of the genre of graphic memoirs. (  ) Cora-R | Jan 23, 2021 |  excellent art and vocabulary that mirror the family. portrait of a family that has artifice and bubbling underneath is tragedy waiting to happen and a discovery to be made. (  ) kevix | Dec 28, 2020 | Really interesting and honest memoir. I think the openness of it attracted me the most, more than the story or artwork; it just felt raw and unflinching. Much more literary than expected; at one point, Bechdel uses Ulysses as to mirror her own story. I also really appreciate how Bechdel acknowledges that this is her truth, not absolute truth (always an important point in memoirs). I just didn't connect as much as I felt like the story demanded; it felt cold, clinical, detached. Maybe that was the point, but it wasn't a pleasant experience in the end. (  ) JustZelma | Dec 20, 2020 | A fascinating, elusive, and slippery memoir about family, identity, and reading. I read this in 2010 for a class and find it just as compelling. ( ) DrFuriosa | Dec 4, 2020 | littlebookjockey | Sep 15, 2020 |
 Bechdel’s style is straightforward. Her detailed drawings strive to present what she remembers accurately and with detail. The book is black-and-white with a blue-grey watercolor wash that provides depth and adds to the feeling of memory.
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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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