Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

Resumen del libro

From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a poignant and hilarious graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her gifted mother always wanted to be.

From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.

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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Alison Bechdelx{0026}lt;/B es la autora de tres cómics autobiográficos aclamados internacionalmente, por los lectores y la crítica: x{0026}lt;I Fun Homex{0026}lt;/I (2006), x{0026}lt;I ¿Eres mi madre?x{0026}lt;/I (2012) y x{0026}lt;I El secreto de la fuerza sobrehumanax{0026}lt;/I (2021), todos publicadas en Reservoir Books. El primero de ellos obtuvo un premio Eisner, fue finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award y fue incluido en la lista de los mejores libros del siglo XXI por el diario británico x{0026}lt;I The Guardianx{0026}lt;/I , además de haber tenido una exitosa adaptación al teatro musical (merecedora de cinco premios Tony). Durante veinticinco años (1983-2008), Bechdel publicó las famosas tiras cómicas x{0026}lt;I Unas lesbianas de cuidadox{0026}lt;/I , conocidas en Estados Unidos por su carácter combativo, que la convirtieron en un verdadero icono de la contracultura. Sus historias han aparecido en las publicaciones periódicas x{0026}lt;I Slatex{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I McSweeney'sx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Entertainment Weeklyx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Grantax{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I The New York Times Book Reviewx{0026}lt;/I . Entre otros galardones en reconocimiento a su carrera artística ha recibido la prestigiosa beca MacArthur y ha sido nombrada Historietista Laureada de Vermont.x{0026}lt;/P