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From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine’s No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.
Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood . . . and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel’s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Mother—to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. An expansive, moving and captivating graphic memoir from 'one of the finest cartoonists at work today'.An expansive, moving and captivating graphic memoir from the author of Fun Home.Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a literary phenomenon. While Fun Home explored Bechdel's relationship with her father, a closeted homosexual, this memoir is about her mother - a voracious reader, a music lover, a passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood. and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter goodnight, for ever, when she was seven.Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf.'As absorbing as it is graced with a deceptive lightness of touch, it is clever, brilliantly pieced together, and utterly unusual. Sunday Times'It's a beautiful (and beautifully illustrated) look at the complexity and dysfunctionality of family through a unique lens - and frames things in such a way that you can't help but re-examine your own relationships, too.' Stylist An expansive, moving and captivating graphic memoir from the author of Fun Home.Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a literary phenomenon. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780224093521
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Book Description Condition: New. A voracious reader, a lover of music, an amateur actress, Alison Bechdel's mother is also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Alison Bechdel's childhood .and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter goodnight, forever, when she was seven. This title presents her portrait. Num Pages: 304 pages, chiefly Illustrations. BIC Classification: FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 236 x 27. Weight in Grams: 634. . 2012. 01st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780224093521
Book Description Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a literary phenomenon: 'an extraordinarily intimate account of family secrets that manages to be shocking, unsettling and life-affirming at the same time', as Sarah Walters wrote in the Guardian. Seller Inventory # B9780224093521
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Book Description Condition: New. A voracious reader, a lover of music, an amateur actress, Alison Bechdel's mother is also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Alison Bechdel's childhood .and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter goodnight, forever, when she was seven. This title presents her portrait. Num Pages: 304 pages, chiefly Illustrations. BIC Classification: FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 236 x 27. Weight in Grams: 634. . 2012. 01st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780224093521