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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation Paperback - 2006
by Lynne Truss
A bona fide publishing phenomenon, Lynne Truss's now classic #1 "New York Times" bestseller "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" makes its paperback debut after selling over 3 million copies worldwide in hardcover.
Summary
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.
First line
Either this will ring bells for you, or it won't.
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- Title Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
- Author Lynne Truss
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Avery Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2006-04-11
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781592402038 / 1592402038
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.2 x 4.9 x 0.7 in (18.29 x 12.45 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 240
- Library of Congress subjects English language - Punctuation
- Dewey Decimal Code 428.2
Media reviews
Eats, Shoots & Leaves “makes correct usage so cool that you have to admire Ms. Truss.”
—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“Witty, smart, passionate.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books Of 2004: Nonfiction
“This book changed my life in small, perfect ways like learning how to make better coffee or fold an omelet. It’s the perfect gift for anyone who cares about grammar and a gentle introduction for those who don’t care enough.”
—The Boston Sunday Globe
—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“Witty, smart, passionate.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books Of 2004: Nonfiction
“This book changed my life in small, perfect ways like learning how to make better coffee or fold an omelet. It’s the perfect gift for anyone who cares about grammar and a gentle introduction for those who don’t care enough.”
—The Boston Sunday Globe
Citations
- New York Times, 04/30/2006, Page 24
- People Weekly, 07/10/2006, Page 53
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