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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation [Paperback & e-books]
Lynne Truss
(from the publisher) 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.
(from Michael) You may find it hard to believe that anyone would write a book about commas and other little squiggly things that go inside or between words, and that someone would read it. Well Lynne wrote it, and I read it -- and so did a great many more people. It has been on several bestseller lists, on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. It's a wonderful book for authors, grammar geeks and normal people.
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$12.98 paperback, order from Barnes & Noble
$11.99 Nook, order from Barnes & Noble
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