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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2012.
Physical Desc
286 [4] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
232 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
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Description
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,...
Author
Publisher
Reservoir Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
245 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
"Durante toda su vida, Alison Bechdel ha buscado un secreto escurridizo. Ha rastreado en sus libros preferidos, en las vidas de sus ídolos, en el celibato, en el poliamor, en el activismo y en la terapia psicológica, pero sobre todo en su pasión casi obsesiva por hacer ejercicio: esquí, running, kárate, ciclismo, yoga... lo que fuera. Sin embargo, al hacerse mayor, el cuerpo ya no siempre le sigue, quizá porque el secreto más importante de...
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