Are you my mother? : a comic drama / Alison Bechdel.
From the best-selling author of the pop culture and literary phenomenon, "Fun Home", a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780618982509 (hc.)
- ISSN: 9780544002234
- Physical Description: 286 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2012.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | The ordinary devoted mother -- Transitional objects -- True and false self -- Mind -- Hate -- Mirror -- The use of an object. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Donation ; Marni Stanley ; 2023/08. |
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Subject: | Bechdel, Alison, 1960- > Comic books, strips, etc. Cartoonists > United States > Comic books, strips, etc. Mothers and daughters > Comic books, strips, etc. |
Genre: | Graphic novels. |
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