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Are you my mother? : a comic drama / Alison Bechdel.

By: Publication details: Boston : Mariner Books, 2013Edition: First Mariner Books editionDescription: 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780544002234 (pbk.)
  • 0544002237 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 741.5/973 B 23
LOC classification:
  • PN6727.B3757 Z46 2013
Contents:
The ordinary devoted mother -- Transitional objects -- True and false self -- Mind -- Hate -- Mirror -- The use of an object.
Summary: Depicts the author's mother as a voracious reader, music lover, and passionate amateur actress who quietly suffers as the wife of a closeted gay artist and withdraws from her young daughter, who searches for answers to the separation later in life.
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The ordinary devoted mother -- Transitional objects -- True and false self -- Mind -- Hate -- Mirror -- The use of an object.

Depicts the author's mother as a voracious reader, music lover, and passionate amateur actress who quietly suffers as the wife of a closeted gay artist and withdraws from her young daughter, who searches for answers to the separation later in life.

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