The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Zindel
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Domestic realism, Drama, Psychological drama, Melodrama
- Subjects: 1970’s, Family or family life, Mothers, Parents and children, Adolescence, Teenagers, Education or educators, Schools or school life, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Single parents or single-parent families, Sisters, Drug addiction or addicts, Drugs, Public schools
- Locales: United States
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1971, was inspired by Zindel's memories of his mother's “charmingly frantic” get-rich-quick schemes. In its focus on the crazy world of a severely troubled woman, and in its resolution in one of the characters’ discovery of self-importance through science, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds anticipates both the plays and young-adult novels that Zindel would later write.
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, like most of Zindel's...
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