Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
by Alison Bechdel
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0544002237
- ISBN 13
- 9780544002234
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- True Oak Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TOB167-16544-A-0.8
- Title
- Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
- Author
- Alison Bechdel
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0544002237
- ISBN 13
- 9780544002234
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- 0544002237
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