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The Agony and the Eggplant: Daniel Pinkwater's Heroic Struggles in the Name of YA Literature

The Agony and the Eggplant: Daniel Pinkwater's Heroic Struggles in the Name of YA Literature

Hogan, Walter

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature, Book 5

Literary CriticismGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0810839946
ISBN13: 9780810839946
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: Mar 21 2001
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.82 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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