Alison Bechdel: Are You My Mother?, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Are You My Mother?
- A Comic Drama
- Publisher:
- Harper Collins Publ. USA, 04/2013
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, Trade PB
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780544002234
- Item number:
- 2945165
- Volume:
- 286 Pages
- other:
- illustrations
- Weight:
- 486 g
- Format:
- 226 x 149 mm
- Thickness:
- 25 mm
- Release date:
- 2.4.2013
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
From the New York Times bestselling author of Fun Home, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama is a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.
A New York Times, USA Today, and Time Best Book of the Year
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.
Biography
Alison Bechdel wuchs im ländlichen Pennsylvania auf und zog nach ihrem Collegeabschluss nach New York. Dort begann sie 1983 die "Comics Dykes to Watch Out For" zu zeichnen, die zunächst monatlich in einer feministischen Zeitschrift erschienen. Heute werden ihre Comics vierzehntägig in mehr als fünfzig Zeitschriften veröffentlicht. Alison Bechdel lebt bei Burlington, Vermont.