From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine’s No. 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 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. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. 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. And, finally, back to Mother—to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
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Author: Bechdel, Alison
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 884707838728
Details:
Author: Bechdel, Alison
Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Edition: First Edition first Printing
Features:
- Used Book in Good Condition
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 304
Release Date: 01-05-2012
Part Number: new18-03-012016-b0082428
Package Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.0 x 1.1 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9780618982509
