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Eats, Shoots & Leaves

The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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Lynne Truss looks the ins and outs of the dying but most necessary art of punctuation. This is a great book, easy to read and quite amusing – certainly not a dry tome. She gives lots of examples and helps you have a much better understanding of the finer points of punctuation, as well as demystifying some of the more technical aspects. A worthy investment.

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We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, 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. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.

Author Biography:

Lynne Truss is a writer and journalist who started out as a literary editor with a blue pencil and then got sidetracked. The author of three novels and numerous radio comedy dramas, she spent six years as the television critic of The Times of London, followed by four (rather peculiar) years as a sports columnist for the same newspaper. She won Columnist of the Year for her work for Women's Journal. Lynne Truss also hosted Cutting a Dash, a popular BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation. She now reviews books for the Sunday Times of London and is a familiar voice on BBC Radio 4. She lives in Brighton, England.
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April 12th, 2004
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  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United States
Imprint
Gotham Books
Pages
240
Publisher
Gotham Books
Dimensions
140x191x24
ISBN-13
9781592400874
Product ID
3985876

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