Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (516 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0544002237 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
And, finally, back to Mother—to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.. 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. It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel’s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home wa
"This is not Fun Home 2" according to morehumanthanhuman. A story about a dead parent has a beginning and an end. A story about a living parent is quite a different thing, especially if you know the parent will be reading the story and you're invested in their response. With all that, I am astonished and in awe of Bechdel's . "To be a subject is an act of aggression." Well this hurts. I wanted to love this book so much. I adore Alison Bechdel. She's incredibly smart, witty, analytical, and heartbreakingly honest--all qualities that have made Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, her first foray into graphic memoir, a modern classic. It's . as well as metaphorical symbolism and real life in her smart storytelling to explore the dimensions of ego More than a memoir about her mother, this is a meta-work exploring female relationships, literature, visual representation, therapy, dreams, and psychoanalysis, in which the author explores and defends her sensational book on her father, "Fun Home." Bechdel blurs the
—Sara Marcus . From Bookforum It's through Bechdel's exquisite visual rhymes and riffs that Are You My Mother? knits together its many strings, with profoundly pleasurable results. It imprints, magnificently, a curious mind's quest to know itself