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Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
Mary Norris
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Description for Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
Paperback. "Hilarious.. This book charmed my socks off." -Patricia O'Conner, New York Times Book Review Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CBG; CBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
Mary Norris has spent more than three decades guarding The New Yorker's grand traditions of grammar and usage. Now she brings her vast experience and sharpened pencil to help the rest of us in a charming language book as full of life as it is of practical advice. Between You & Me features Norris's laugh-out-loud exhortations about exclamation marks and emoticons, comma faults and swear words; her memorable exchanges about usage with writers such as Ian Frazier, Pauline Kael, Philip Roth and George Saunders; and her loving meditations on the most important tools of the trade. Readers and writers will ... Read more
Mary Norris has spent more than three decades guarding The New Yorker's grand traditions of grammar and usage. Now she brings her vast experience and sharpened pencil to help the rest of us in a charming language book as full of life as it is of practical advice. Between You & Me features Norris's laugh-out-loud exhortations about exclamation marks and emoticons, comma faults and swear words; her memorable exchanges about usage with writers such as Ian Frazier, Pauline Kael, Philip Roth and George Saunders; and her loving meditations on the most important tools of the trade. Readers and writers will ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
197g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393352146
SKU
V9780393352146
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About Mary Norris
Mary Norris began working at The New Yorker in 1978. Originally from Cleveland, she now lives in New York.
Reviews for Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
...a charming, chatty, discursive, style guide...
Literary Review Norris is warm, knowledgable and unapologetically fussy...The pleasure of Between You & Me boils down to a willingness to spend 200 tightly edited pages in Mary Norris's good-natured, wise company.
The Guardian ...Between You & Me, has an old New Yorker charm.
The Times ... Read more
Literary Review Norris is warm, knowledgable and unapologetically fussy...The pleasure of Between You & Me boils down to a willingness to spend 200 tightly edited pages in Mary Norris's good-natured, wise company.
The Guardian ...Between You & Me, has an old New Yorker charm.
The Times ... Read more