New Releases by Alison Bechdel

"So che mia madre si augura che io non scriva questo libro su di lei. La nota ironica è che se lei non avesse costituito un efficacissimo modello di temerarietà, io probabilmente non sarei qui a scriverlo." Per Alison Bechdel l'arte dell'autofiction è un nido a cui tornare, ma anche un campo di battaglia. È un mezzo di espressione necessario, forse l'unico, insieme alla psicanalisi, per riordinare il caos e trasformare il dolore in comprensione del mondo. Dopo essere andata a caccia della verità sul padre nel suo capolavoro Fun Home, l'autrice si rivolge una seconda volta alla sua "tragicomica" storia familiare sulle tracce della madre Helen: fine lettrice, attrice frustrata, moglie segretamente e scandalosamente tradita, donna dalle grandi aspirazioni artistiche, ma consapevole di vivere sotto una "cupola di vetro", madre distante e poco affettuosa. In un viaggio avanti e indietro nel tempo, ricco di sogni interpretati, sedute di terapia, lettere ritrovate, brani di Virginia Woolf e citazioni di Donald Winnicott, figura di primo piano della psicanalisi infantile, Alison ricompone le molte anime di sua madre per potercisi specchiare, e riconoscere così anche la propria identità. Perché, come scrive Vera Gheno nella prefazione a questa edizione, le due donne ritratte in questo libro sono "rotte ma non certo vinte". Un'opera autobiografica densa e sofferta, sicuramente "temeraria", un graphic memoir sulla complessità del rapporto tra figlie e madri, sulle origini, e sui fili che ci legano, nel bene e nel male, alle famiglie in cui siamo stati bambini. *********************** Questo eBook è ottimizzato per la fruizione su tablet; se ne sconsiglia pertanto la lettura sui dispositivi eReader.

圖像小說 X 同志文學 X 回憶錄書寫 跨界經典 《紐約時報》二十一世紀百大好書 自我性向的青澀摸索，碰撞出上一代不能說的祕密： 以為自己的戀情將要引爆家庭革命， 卻發現被打開的是這個家深鎖更久的暗櫃…… ☆艾斯納獎最佳真實事件改編漫畫 ☆浪達文學獎最佳女同志回憶錄/自傳 ☆美國圖書館學會石牆圖書獎（非文學類書籍獎） ☆美國國家書評獎決選入圍（自傳類） ☆安古蘭國際漫畫節入選作品 李屏瑤（作家）、 林蔚昀（作家）、 紀大偉（《同志文學史》、酷兒科幻小說《膜》作者，政治大學台灣文學研究所副教授）、 張亦絢（作家）、 番紅花（作家）、 黃惠偵（《日常對話》導演）、 黃嘉韻（張銘峰律師事務所顧問、高雄市性別公民行動協會理事長、高雄市女性權益促進會理事長）、 聶永真（設計師） ──感動推薦 「老爸的生命終局成為我的人生開端。更精準地說，他謊言的盡頭剛好是我面對真相的起點。」 她在一九七○年代保守的賓州小鎮上長大，家是一座華麗的哥德式翻新古宅，也是一間逐漸步入蕭條的葬儀社；爸爸是雅好文學的高中教師，也是家族事業勉為其難的繼承人，更常是孩子們望而生畏的傳統嚴父。 成長過程中，她愈來愈不安於典型女孩的長髮、洋裝，倒察覺爸爸在權威外表下對精緻優美事物的執著遠勝於她。終於，在遠離家鄉的大學校園、風起雲湧的平權運動浪潮中，她鼓起勇氣寫信回家宣告「我是同性戀！」，卻立刻面對母親的嚴厲反對與驚人揭露：原來，父親隱藏性向的歲月，比她還長。 旋即逝世的父親不但對往事守口如瓶，連真正的死因也成謎。她於是開始細細挖掘從小到大的家庭回憶，在父親精心修繕的屋子裡、在父母熱愛的文學作品中，尋找著他的雙重生活留下的痕跡，審視這個悲喜交織、充滿祕密的家，讓他們這對曾經同樣壓抑、命運卻截然不同的父女獲得了什麼、又失去了多少…… 《歡樂之家》初版於二○○六年，旋即獲得艾斯納獎、浪達文學獎、石牆圖書獎等漫畫大獎與同志文學獎項，打入美國國家書評獎決選。書中對於性啟蒙及同志情慾的正面描繪，不斷觸動宗教團體、保守人士發動下架拒讀，使本書成為美國言論自由與性別平等教育遭受挑戰的著名案例；時至今日，這部作品仍然在圖像文學與回憶錄書寫的領域都具有備受推崇的經典地位，入選了《紐約時報》評選的「二十一世紀百大好書」，也曾改編為百老匯音樂劇，勇奪五項東尼獎、入圍普立茲戲劇獎。 └佳評讚譽┘ 「《歡樂之家》（及其續作《我和母親之間》）經過時間的考驗，不但成為同志通俗文化的經典，也成為『圖像小說』這個類別的榜樣。這套書的主旨不在於再一次歌頌同志的年少輕狂，而在於直接面對同志和原生家庭之間的創傷、責任、療癒。對於關心同志、同志歷史、高齡同志、精神障礙等等議題的讀者來說，這套書不宜錯過。」──紀大偉（《同志文學史》、酷兒科幻小說《膜》作者，政治大學台灣文學研究所副教授） 「貝克德爾是個冷面笑匠，這套堪稱經典的漫畫，可說是文學、性別與同志的精彩同台演出，它的深刻、細膩與莽撞，為漫畫的廣度與『不甜蜜家庭書寫』開出一片大好江山：真摯的關照與一流的敘事，以戲謔的手法，為文化與社會運動畫龍點睛。」──張亦絢（作家） 「作者以銳利而細膩的筆觸，描繪出那個我們以為熟悉，卻從未真正凝視過的「家」。在《歡樂之家》中，那棟被鄰人稱作豪宅的房子，承載著讓人會心一笑、也令人苦澀的片刻，更多的是滲著孤寂與哀傷的餘溫。感謝艾莉森‧貝克德爾，以文字與圖像的力量，再現了家庭關係裡最真實的陰影與光。」──黃惠偵（《日常對話》導演） 「以漫畫的呈現及日記書寫交錯剖白自身經歷，令人耳目一新。貝克德爾經由樸實自然的筆法，深度探究人我與家庭關係，更自我揭露同志身分，與接受憂鬱症的過程，讓讀者一旦翻閱就欲罷不能，餘韻無窮。」──黃嘉韻（張銘峰律師事務所顧問、高雄市性別公民行動協會理事長、高雄市女性權益促進會理事長） 「貝克德爾狂熱地對抗著成長的環境與逃脫的衝動，用她筆下的圖畫與文字為自己在這個多才、博學、卻極為寂寞的家庭裡找到存在意義。我讚賞她細膩的心思與多樣的才華──兼有美妙的文字與令人驚嘆的作畫。《歡樂之家》是一則複雜精細的童年紀事。」──吉兒‧索洛威(Jill Soloway)，影集《六呎風雲》(Six Feet Under)、《透明家庭》(Transparent)編劇暨製片 「讓《歡樂之家》如此出色的特質，也是它備受爭議的原因：它毫不避諱地直視性與壓抑，同時也申論了閱讀如何能救人一命。」──美國筆會 「開創性的先驅之作，為兩種文類（漫畫與回憶錄）都開展了全新的方向。一本寫給文字愛好者的漫畫書。貝克德爾結合了豐富的語言與精確的意象，創造出一部精采奪目的作品。」──《紐約時報》書評 「二十一世紀圖像小說及非文學書籍的傑作。」──《美國今日報》書評 「貝克德爾這部回憶錄的圖像敘事具有少見的豐富內涵、深度、文學共鳴，以及心理方面的複雜層次。」──《柯克斯書評》

A special hardcover Deluxe Collector's Edition of Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir and basis for the Tony Award-winning musical--featuring a cloth case with new art, a reversible jacket with new art on both sides enhanced with teal and silver foil, and sprayed edges. Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the "Fun Home." It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a confused legacy for his daughter to resolve. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.

The celebrated and beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-out-loud, brilliant, and passionately political work of autofiction. “Truthful, rueful and delightful.”—LA Times In Alison Bechdel’s hilariously skewering and gloriously cast new comic novel confection, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel, running a pygmy goat sanctuary in Vermont, is existentially irked by a climate-challenged world and a citizenry on the brink of civil war. She wonders: Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathingly self-critical memoir about her own greed and privilege? Meanwhile, Alison’s first graphic memoir about growing up with her father, a taxidermist who specialized in replicas of Victorian animal displays, has been adapted into a highly successful TV series. It’s a phenomenon that makes Alison, formerly on the cultural margins, the envy of her friend group (recognizable as characters, now middle-aged and living communally in Vermont, from Bechdel’s beloved comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For). As the TV show Death and Taxidermy racks up Emmy after Emmy—and when Alison’s Pauline Bunyanesque partner Holly posts an instructional wood-chopping video that goes viral—Alison’s own envy spirals. Why couldn’t she be the writer for a critically lauded and wildly popular reality TV show…like Queer Eye...showing people how to free themselves from consumer capitalism and live a more ethical life?!! Spent’s rollicking and masterful denouement—making the case for seizing what’s true about life in the world at this moment, before it’s too late—once again proves that “nobody does it better” (New York Times Book Review) than the real Alison Bechdel.

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Fun Home All her life, Alison Bechdel has searched for an elusive secret. The secret to superhuman strength. She has looked for it in her favourite books, the lives of her heroes, celibacy, polyamory, activism, therapy, and most obsessively, in her lifelong passion for exercise. Skiing, running, karate, cycling, yoga, weight lifting - you name it, she's tried it. "Oh, to be self-sufficient! Hard as a rock! An island!" But as she gets older, her body isn't getting any stronger. And in a changing, sometimes overwhelming world, are "cantaloupe-sized guns" all a person needs? Maybe the all-important secret is not where she expected to find it . . . In this, her third graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel has written a deeply layered, personal story about selfhood, self-sabotage, mortality, addiction, bliss, wonder, and the concerns of a generation.

L'auteure de Fun Home et de C'est toi, ma maman ? a réalisé entre 1983 et 2008 plus de 500 strips mettant en scène une pléiade de personnages (dont elle-même) et traitant, entre autres, du thème de l'homosexualité féminine. Alison Bechdel, plebiscitée dans le monde entier pour la qualité de son écriture et récompensée par de nombreux prix, y dépeint tout un pan de la contre-culture américaine de ces trente dernières années en mixant humour, révolte, réflexion et émotion. Réunies aux Etats-Unis sous le nom Dykes to Watch Out for, ces bandes dessinées devenues cultes (vous ne connaissez pas le "Test de Bechdel" ?) se voient enfin traduites en français dans leur intégralité.

La verdadera Biblia del cómic lésbico undergound. Una selección de las reivindicativas y divertidas viñetas que Alison Bechdel publicó en distinta prensa gay y lésbica de Estados Unidos desde los años 80 hasta 2008. CONSIDERADA UNA DE LAS 25 OBRAS MÁS INFLUYENTES DE LA LITERATURA QUEER DE POSGUERRA SEGÚN THE NEW YORK TIMES A lo largo de más de tres décadas, el pionero Unas lesbianas de cuidado ha sido publicado en volúmenes premiados, en revistas alternativas y traducido a numerosos idiomas. Finalmente este volumen reúne «una rica, divertida, profunda e irresistible» ( Publishers Weekly) selección de los once volúmenes originales. Además, incluye sesenta tiras inéditas en formato libro. El libro es una suerte de ingenioso culebrón -Bechdel lo califica como una mezcla de columna de opinión y novela victoriana serializada- sobre las vidas, los amores y las vicisitudes ideológicas de un grupo de personajes, la mayoría lesbianas, que viven en una ciudad americana que bien podría ser Minneapolis. La brillante panda contracultural imaginada por Bechdel está formada por académicos, trabajadores sociales, libreros... Todos ellos se enamoran y desenamoran, hacen y deshacen amistades, crían niños, cambian de carrera y lidian con padres que envejecen. Unas lesbianas de cuidado fusiona alta y baja cultura -desde política internacional hasta rutina doméstica, teoría posmoderna o sexo salvaje- en una novela gráfica «indicada para cualquier tipo de humanista». La crítica ha dicho... «Una autora esencial que toda biblioteca de diversidad debe incluir.» Nieves Gascón, 20 Minutos «Divertida, irreverente y valiente. [...] Sus historias combinan humor dulce con una descripción sincera de las complejidades sociales que deben afrontar las mujeres homosexuales. Sus dibujos son fascinantes, sencillos y extraordinariamente cómicos.» Publishers Weekly «La narración de la autora se muestra ágil, vivaz y corrosivamente ácida ante el lector, y sus trazos se perfilan hasta definir un perfecto mosaico que te transporta hasta la casa de Bechdel.» Inés Martín Rodrigo, ABC «Me sorprendió el gran dominio literario que aquella mujer poseía para mostrar, lejos de los estereotipos al uso, el lado más cotidiano y a veces hasta cómico de la homosexualidad femenina.» Felipe Hernández Cava, El Cultural de El Mundo «Sus lesbianas chifladas parecen más cuerdas que cualquiera de nosotros, aparte de bellas.» Dwight Garner, The New York Times «Un libro indiscutiblemente influyente: Bechdel fue una de las principales impulsoras de la creación de una presencia cultural lésbica visible. Y Lo indispensable de Unas lesbianas de cuidado fue escrito específicamente para una audiencia lesbiana.» Lisa Kron, The New York Times «Bechdel me parece la mejor. Gráficamente es de veras innovadora. Su utilización de los mapas para mostrar la geografía de la acción es muy brillante. También es una narradora dotada.» Bryan Appleyard, The Times

The New York Times–bestselling graphic memoir about Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, 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. A New York Times, USA Today, Time, Slate, and Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year "As complicated, brainy, inventive and satisfying as the finest prose memoirs."— New York Times Book Review "A work of the most humane kind of genius, bravely going right to the heart of things: why we are who we are. It's also incredibly funny. And visually stunning. And page-turningly addictive. And heartbreaking ."—Jonathan Safran Foer "Many of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers. Alison Bechdel has written a graphic novel about this; sort of like a comic book by Virginia Woolf. You won't believe it until you read it—and you must!"—Gloria Steinem

For 25 years Bechdel's path-breaking "Dykes to Watch Out For" strip has been collected in award-winning volumes, syndicated in alternative newspapers, and translated into many languages. This collection gathers 60 of the newest strips.

In the tenth book in the best-selling lesbian comic series that has become an international treasure, Mo, Clarice, Lois, Sparrow and Toni square off on questions of idealism, violence, compassion, patriotism and dissent. As they hash out their ideological differences, a black-and-white world takes on surprisingly variegated shades of grey. Syndicated worldwide and in Diva magazine, this newest addition to the series is guaranteed to take the UK lesbian community by storm.

Go behind the pen and into the psyche of "dyke to watch out for" Alison Bechdel, cartoon chronicler extraordinaire, as the inner workings of lesbiana's most quick-witted, longest-running social commentator are revealed. Illustrations throughout.

Big changes are set in motion when many of Alison Bechdel's best-loved lesbian gals find themselves on the move in this eighth cartoon collection. Illustrations.

Alison's Bechdel's cartoons are a libidinous commentary on the tsunami of lesbian erotica surging through the culture. The familiar cast of characters will keep readers laughing as their carnal mores are revealed.

The sixth collection of Bechdel's comic lampoons of lesbian life revisits Ginger, Mo, Lois, and Toni's early lives.

This is the fifth collection of work from Bechdel's signature comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For. In this volume, Toni and Clarice are having a baby and of particular note is the long sequence created just for readers of Spawn--the birth itself. Where babies come from may never look the same again.

Grin, giggle, and guffaw your way through this celebrated cartoonist's graphic commentary of contemporary lesbian life.

Irksomely earnest Mo makes her debut in this, the second collection of work from Bechdel's signature comic strip. Mo's at loose ends--unemployed, unintentionally celibate and unable to come to grips with a regrettable haircut. What could the unflappable Harriet possibly see in her? Perhaps the answer lies in the "mildly erotic" account of their first night together ...