![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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.įeaturing 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 published in April of 2004, Eats, Shoots and Leaves spent 25 weeks on the NY Times bestseller list and by October of that year had gone back to press 22 times to bring the total of copies in print to a million. 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. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation. turn of the new century, she thought it would be just for grammar nerds. ![]() Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books Of 2004: Nonfiction aWho knew grammar could. The spirited and scholarly 1 New York Times bestseller combines boisterous history with grammar how-tos to show how important punctuation is in our. 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. Discover why Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss is such a great book to read. BACKCOVER: Praise for Lynne Truss and Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Eats. ![]()
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