A memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father--a funeral home director, high school English teacher, and closeted homosexual. In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.
In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail. Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music. Amid the tensions of her home life, Alison discovers her. Theatre has long been considered a feminine interest for which women consistently purchase the majority of tickets, while the shows they are seeing typically are written and brought to the stage by men.
Furthermore, the stories these productions tell are often about men, and the complex leading roles in these. First UK publication for this modern classic 'Moving, tender, beautifully drawn, painfully honest and probably the most important graphic novel since Jimmy Corrigan. Author's theatrical exploration of issues of health and illness both in the individual and in a community, by using her mother as an example.
The repercussions of that night haunt the journey home until they can be contained no further. Brings together a new collection of cartoons recounting the lives and loves of a diverse group of lesbian friends.
Collecting Marvels Within the Marvel Universe, heroes soar high in the skies, ready to battle the villains who threaten their world. I will definitely recommend this book to sequential art, graphic novels lovers. Your Rating:. Your Comment:. Read Online Download. Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:. Shadow Baby by Alison McGhee. Model Home by Eric Puchner. Home Free by Fern Michaels. Home Sweet Home by Bella Riley.
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