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Issue: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic #[nn]

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Publication Date: January 2006

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Houghton Mifflin

Brand: Houghton Mifflin

Indicia Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company

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Volume: none

Pages: 248

ISBN: 97806184779440618477942

UPC/EAN: 978061847794490000

Price: $26.95 CAD
$19.95 USD

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 11 (7 stories, 2 covers)

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Publication Type: Hardcover

Color: color cover; one color interior

Dimensions: 6.375 in. x 9.25 in.

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Binding: hardcover with dust jacket

Publishing Format: graphic novel

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- cover and endpaper [Illustration on Cover, Front]1

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Some/all of Issue reprinted as 2 Content Items in other Issues:

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic #[nn] [unnamed variant] published June 2007 as Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Husfred en tragikomisk familiehistorie #[nn] published November 2007 as Husfred en tragikomisk familiehistorie [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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ファン・ホーム : ある家族の悲喜劇 [Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic] #[nn] published January 2011

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Content Items (11 total)

cover and endpaper

Illustration on Cover, Front

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Fun Home

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Husfred en tragikomisk familiehistorie #[nn] published November 2007
as Husfred en tragikomisk familiehistorie [Illustration on Cover, Wraparound]

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Pages: 4

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Pages: 6

Chapter 1: Old Father, Old Artificer

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Genres: drama

Feature(s): Fun Home

Character(s): Alison Bechdel; Bruce Bechdel; Helen Bechdel; Christian Bechdel; John Bechdel

Synopsis: Alison introduces her family and the odd Victorian mansion in which they live. We meet her father, Bruce, the town funeral home director and high school English teacher who obsessively remodels their home to the exclusion of his family.

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Pages: 24

Chapter 2: A Happy Death

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Genres: drama

Feature(s): Fun Home

Character(s): Alison Bechdel; Bruce Bechdel (death); Helen Bechdel; Christian Bechdel; John Bechdel

Synopsis: Allison describes the odd family life of the family that runs the funeral home, all of which leads up to having to attend her father's funeral in the same funeral home.

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Pages: 30

Chapter 3: That Old Catastrophe

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Genres: drama

Feature(s): Fun Home

Character(s): Alison Bechdel; Bruce Bechdel; Helen Bechdel; Christian Bechdel; John Bechdel

Synopsis: Alison describes how her parents met, her father's early obsession with the writing of John Fitzgerald, and her emergence as a lesbian at college.

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Pages: 32

Chapter 4: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

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Genres: drama

Feature(s): Fun Home

Character(s): Alison Bechdel; Bruce Bechdel; Helen Bechdel; Christian Bechdel; John Bechdel

Synopsis: Alison describes her discovery that her father was secretly having affairs with men, including a boy who used to be her babysitter. The chapter follows extensive allusions and comparisons to Proust's Remembrance of things Past.

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Pages: 34

Chapter 5: The Canary-colored Caravan of Death

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Genres: drama

Feature(s): Fun Home

Character(s): Alison Bechdel; Bruce Bechdel; Helen Bechdel; Christian Bechdel; John Bechdel

Synopsis: Alison suffers from OCD around the age of eleven, but she turns the obsessions on themselves and obsessively trains herself to not obsess.

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Pages: 30

Chapter 6: The Ideal Husband

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Genres: drama

Feature(s): Fun Home

Character(s): Alison Bechdel; Bruce Bechdel; Helen Bechdel; Christian Bechdel; John Bechdel

Synopsis: A particularly eventful summer: Alison's first period, Nixon's resignation, her mother Helen in a play, her father's arrest for providing alcohol to a minor, and a summer storm that tore out two maples in their yard but left the house untouched.

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Pages: 36

Chapter 7: The Antihero's Journey

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Genres: drama

Feature(s): Fun Home

Character(s): Alison Bechdel; Bruce Bechdel; Helen Bechdel; Christian Bechdel; John Bechdel

Synopsis: Alison takes a college class on James Joyce, but she spends most of her time reading early LGBT literature.

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Pages: 46

Acknowledgements

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Feature(s): Fun Home

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endpaper and cover

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Pages: 4