The Pigman and Me

by PaulZindel (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1991

  $3.25

  An autobiography, covering the teenage years of Paul Zindel, Pulitzer Prize Winner, and teenage fiction writer. Through it the reader shares the painful and sometimes comic experiences of his adolescence: his move to Travis, a small Polish town on Staten Island during World War II, the turbulent relationship both he and his sister sustained with their eccentric mother, and the delapidated house shared by them and a loud and colourful Italian family. The reader also learns of the relationship with his beloved Nonno Frankie, his own Pigman. This account of the audacious emotional struggle by the young Paul Zindel to find his own identity provides an insight into the influences that eventually led him to write The Pigman , creating the genre of teenage fiction.