Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball!
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Author | Paul Zindel |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Young Adult literature |
Publisher | Harper Trophy |
Publication date | 1976 |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 240 pages |
ISBN | 0-553-26690-X |
Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball! is a young adult novel written by Paul Zindel, first published in 1976.
Plot summary[]
The novel follows two alienated teenagers in Staten Island, 15-year-old Louis "Marsh" Mellow and Edna Shinglebox, as they cope with their family issues. Edna's mother is agonized over her daughter's not having a sweetheart while Marsh reveals his father is committed to a psychiatric hospital in Los Angeles.
Reception[]
Kirkus Reviews wrote in 1976, "Compared with Judith Guest's recent Ordinary People... this is a broader, outside view of teenage crazies, splashed with caricature and pointed distortion. But Zindel does involve you — breathlessly — in one bizarre, increasingly frenzied scene after another."[1]
References[]
- ^ "Pardon Me, You're Stepping On My Eyeball!". Kirkus Reviews. October 1, 1976. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
Categories:
- 1976 American novels
- Novels by Paul Zindel
- American young adult novels
- Novels set in Staten Island
- 1970s young adult novel stubs