{"product_id":"9780224080514","title":"Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic","description":"Author(s): Bechdel, Alison, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 14\/09\/2006,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 240 pages, Throughout,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Jonathan Cape,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Vintage Publishing,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Memoirs,\u003cbr\u003e Dimensions: 152 x 150 x 17\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\/EAN\/SKU: 9780224080514\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A sapphic graphic treat' The TimesA moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you liked Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis you'll love this.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, 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 his male students and the family babysitter. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterweaving between childhood memories, college life and present day, and through narrative that is equally heartbreaking and fiercely funny, Alison looks back on her complex relationship with her father and finds they had more in common than she ever knew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A groundbreaking masterpiece' The Independent'A finely woven blend of yearning and euphoric fantasy' Evening Standard**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bechdel, Alison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56405592310146,"sku":"9780224080514","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/2180\/9347\/files\/9780224080514.jpg?v=1775908852","url":"https:\/\/mountfloridabooks.com\/products\/9780224080514","provider":"Mount Florida Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}