By Katy Waldman In her new book, Bechdel runs, climbs, and becomes addicted to Patagonia gear, all in. Interweaving between childhood memories, college life and present day, and through narrative that is equally heartbreaking and fiercely funny, Alison looks back on her complex relationship with her father and finds they had more in common than she ever knew. Alison Bechdel’s Ultimate Workout How the artist found freedom through fitness. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high-school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and the family babysitter. A must-have new edition of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece, featuring a cover illustrated by Alison Bechdel, the New York Times bestselling author of Fun Home, and a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood A Penguin Classics Graphic Deluxe Edition Every summer, Mr. Very excited to be a contributor to this gorgeous series. Alison Bechdel is the author and illustrator of the New York Times bestselling graphic memoir Fun Home, which was Time magazine’s 1 Book of the Year and was adapted into a Tony Awardwinning musical, as well as the graphic memoirs Are You My Mother and The Secret to Superhuman Strength and the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For.

If you liked Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis you'll love this. RT AlisonBechdel: Today's the launch of the PenguinClassics edition of To The Lighthouse-for which I drew the cover art. DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical.Ī moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings.

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