Between You & Me

✍ Scribed by Norris, Mary

• Book ID: 109555024
• Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 293 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781925240993

✦ Synopsis

The most irreverent and enjoyable book on language since Eats, Shoots & Leaves.

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 hilarious exhortations about exclamation marks and emoticons, splice commas and swear words; her memorable exchanges with writers such as Pauline Kael, Philip Roth, and George Saunders; and her loving meditations on the most important tools of the trade. Readers - and writers - will find in Norris neither a scold nor a softie but a wise new friend in love with language.

Mary Norris began working at the New Yorker in 1978. Originally from Cleveland, she now lives in New York. This is her first book. Her favourite pencil used to be the Dixon...