Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
The spirited and scholarly #1 New York Times bestseller combines boisterous history with grammar how-to's to show how important punctuation is in our world--period.In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation. She proclaims, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. Using examples from literature, history, neighborhood signage, and her own imagination, Truss shows how meaning is shaped by commas and apostrophes, and the hilarious consequences of punctuation gone awry.
Featuring a foreword by Frank McCourt, and interspersed with a lively history of punctuation from the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, Eats, Shoots & Leaves makes a powerful case for the preservation of proper punctuation.
Lynne Truss is a well-known novelist, scriptwriter, columnist, and radio and television host. Truss is the author of a number of works of fiction and nonfiction, including the bestselling book Eats, Shoots, and Leaves about punctuation. She and her two Norfolk Terriers live on the South Coast of England.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781592400874 |
| ISBN 10 | 1592400876 |
| Title | Eats, Shoots & Leaves |
| Author | Lynne Truss |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Gotham Books |
| Year published | 2004-04-12 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Prizes | Winner of British Book Award. |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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