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Summary:

A memoir told in graphic novel fomr of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Bechdel's mother was a voracious reader, music lover, and 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 Motherاto a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.

Author/Creator:

Bechdel, Alison, 1960-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Are you my mother?: a comic drama [by Bechdel, A.]

Subjects:

Bechdel, Alison, 1960- — Memoir

Families — Memoir

Graphic novels

Cartoonists — United States — Memoir

Bechdel, Alison, 1960-

Families

Cartoonists

United States

General Notes:

A gift from Resource Center Dallas.

Physical Description:

286 pages : illustrated ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

PN6727.B3757 Z46 2012

ISBNs:

9780618982509

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2012010582

OCLC Numbers:

780063960