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Title: The Agony and the Eggplant
Condition: New
Subtitle: Daniel Pinkwater's Heroic Struggles in the Name of YA Literature
Author: Walter Hogan
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 0810839946
EAN: 9780810839946
ISBN: 9780810839946
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Genre: Literary Criticism
Release Date: 21/03/2001
Description: The Agony and the Eggplant is the first book-length study of author, illustrator, and radio personality, Daniel Pinkwater. Pinkwater began writing and illustrating children's books in 1970 and has been a prolific author for three decades. He has written over 70 books altogether: more than fifty picture books, a dozen books for middle-grade or intermediate readers, half a dozen books for adolescents, an adult novel, and several books of nonfiction. Pinkwater is a humorist, and many of his stories involve science fiction or fantasy themes. He is often compared with Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut; his style is often likened to Monty Python and Mad magazine. Pinkwater's fiction has often been described as "wacky" and "zany;" The Agony and the Eggplant will go beyond those cliches to place Pinkwater as a classical satirist, an American humorist, and a master of children's literature. Sprinkled with quotes and observations from Pinkwater, Hogan gives us a highly entertaining look at the man responsible for some of the most unique young adult fiction on the market.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 224mm
Item Length: 145mm
Item Width: 20mm
Item Weight: 354g
Book Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature
Release Year: 2001

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