Alison Bechdel
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
A graphic memoir of Fun Home author's lifelong love affair with exercise, set against a hilarious chronicle of contemporary fitness fads.
The Best Graphic Book of 2021 by Publishers Weekly | A New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2021 | A New York Times Notable Book | An Autostraddle Best Queer Book of the Year | A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year | A St. Louis Post Dispatch Best...
The Best Graphic Book of 2021 by Publishers Weekly | A New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2021 | A New York Times Notable Book | An Autostraddle Best Queer Book of the Year | A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year | A St. Louis Post Dispatch Best...
Author
Publisher
Reservoir Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Bechdel nos describe la relación con su madre, una mujer muy especial: lectora voraz, amante de la música, apasionada actriz amateur y esposa infeliz a causa de la homosexualidad de su marido, una mujer cuyas aspiraciones artísticas crecieron coincidiendo con la infancia de Alison. Con un estilo conmovedor a la vez que agudo, Bechdel busca respuestas a su infancia en este maravilloso recorrido por su vida."--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Depicts the author's mother as a voracious reader, music lover, and passionate amateur actress who quietly suffers as the wife of a closeted gay artist and withdraws from her young daughter, who searches for answers to the separation later in life.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2007, cc2006
Language
English
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,...