{"product_id":"are-you-my-mother-alison-bechdel","title":"Are You My Mother? (Alison Bechdel)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn expansive, moving and captivating graphic memoir from the author of \u003ci\u003eFun Home\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlison Bechdel's \u003ci\u003eFun Home \u003c\/i\u003ewas a literary phenomenon. While\u003ci\u003e Fun Home \u003c\/i\u003eexplored Bechdel's relationship with her father, a closeted homosexual, this memoir is about her mother - a voracious reader, a music lover, a passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood... and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter goodnight, for ever, when she was seven.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'As absorbing as it is graced with a deceptive lightness of touch, it is clever, brilliantly pieced together, and utterly unusual. \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It's a beautiful (and beautifully illustrated) look at the complexity and dysfunctionality of family through a unique lens - and frames things in such a way that you can't help but re-examine your own relationships, too.' \u003ci\u003eStylist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlison Bechdel\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three internationally acclaimed graphic memoirs, \u003ci\u003eFun Home: A Family Tragicomic, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAre You My Mother?: A Comic Drama \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Secret to Superhuman Strength. Fun Home\u003c\/i\u003e was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, won an Eisner Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was named a Best Book of the 21st Century by the \u003ci\u003eGuardian, \u003c\/i\u003ewas adapted to a broadway musical which won five Tony Awards and is currently being adapted for cinema. For twenty-five years, she wrote and drew the comic strip \u003ci\u003eDykes to Watch Out For\u003c\/i\u003e, a visual chronicle of modern life - queer and otherwise - considered 'one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre'. Alison Bechdel is guest editor of \u003ci\u003eBest American Comics\u003c\/i\u003e, 2011, and has drawn comics for \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2014 she was named as one of the recipients of the MacArthur 'Genius' Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehttp:\/\/dykestowatchoutfor.com\/\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 304 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65907811811677,"sku":"K032069473","price":21.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/3206947300001A.jpg?v=1789282225","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/are-you-my-mother-alison-bechdel","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}