Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

The spirited and scholarly #1 New York Times bestseller combines boisterous history with grammar how-to's to show...
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Author: Lynne Truss
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Truss, Lynne

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

$38.50

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

$38.50
Author: Lynne Truss
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.



Author: Lynne Truss
Publisher: Avery Publishing Group
Published: 04/11/2006
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.20h x 4.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781592402038
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 1.6
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 108314 / Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 04/30/2006 pg. 24
People Weekly 07/10/2006 pg. 53

About the Author
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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