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Issue: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic #[nn]
Publication Date: January 2006
 
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Publisher: FlagHoughton Mifflin
Brand: Houghton Mifflin
Indicia Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
On Sale Date: (not set)
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

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Genres: biography
Feature(s): Fun Home
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In Content Item: FlagHusfred en tragikomisk familiehistorie #[nn] published November 2007
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Chapter 1: Old Father, Old Artificer

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Genres: biography, 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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Chapter 2: A Happy Death

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Genres: biography, 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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Chapter 3: That Old Catastrophe

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Genres: biography, 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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Chapter 4: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

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Genres: biography, 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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Chapter 5: The Canary-colored Caravan of Death

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Genres: biography, 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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Chapter 6: The Ideal Husband

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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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Chapter 7: The Antihero's Journey

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Genres: biography, 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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Acknowledgements

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Feature(s): Fun Home
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