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Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

book cover ISBN'.9780618982509.'




Alison Bechdel | € 24.99 €  15.99
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subject: Biography and Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
ISBN: 9780618982509 | ISBN-10: 0618982507
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) | publication date: 01/05/2012
US Edition | Hardcover | 286 pages| | |
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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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