Bibliograph

Fun home, una familia tragicómica, Alison Bechdel ; traducción de Rocío de la Maya

Type

Label

Fun home, una familia tragicómica, Alison Bechdel ; traducción de Rocío de la Maya

Language

spa

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fun home

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels

Oclc number

956351749

Responsibility statement

Alison Bechdel ; traducción de Rocío de la Maya

Series statement

Reservoir books

Sub title

una familia tragicómica

Summary

"El padre de Alison es un profesor de inglés obsesionado por restaurar con antigüedades su casa victoriana y es dueño de una vieja funeraria. En consonancia con la frialdad de su entorno, es un padre distante y tiránico que mantiene en secreto su verdadera inclinanción sexual. A través de esta narrative gráfica, cómica y desoladora, nos acercamos a los complejos de Alison, que lucha en soledad por encontrar su lugar en el mundo y redimir su precaria relación familiar."--back of coverThis 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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