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My Darling, My Hamburger (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

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My Darling, My Hamburger, Zindel's second young adult novel, was the first to use the type of offbeat title which would become a kind of Zindel trademark. Eventually, the Zindel bibliography would grow to include titles such as Pardon Me, You’re Stepping on My Eyeball!, Harry and Hortense at Hormone High, and The Amazing and Death-Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman (1987). Zindel was again concerned with four basic themes—identity and meaning, the questioning of traditional values, the loneliness of the individual, and the difficulty of communication. My...

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