Alison Bechdel
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
Depicts the author's mother as a voracious reader, music lover, and passionate amateur actress who quietly suffers as the wife of a closeted gay artist and withdraws from her young daughter, who searches for answers to the separation later in life.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
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Description
A memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father--a funeral home director, high school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
As words and stories are increasingly disseminated through digital means, the significance of the book as object, whether pristine collectible or battered relic, is growing as well. This book spotlights the personal libraries of thirteen favorite novelists who share their collections with readers. Photographs provide full views of the libraries and close-ups of individual volumes: first editions, worn textbooks, pristine hardcovers, and childhood...